Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast with One 0ver The Eight in which he constantly said his ‘ gloo — oo-oo-m ’ words or would take a word like ‘ now ’ and repeat it excessively , he behaved with total seriousness in this ; a different character entirely . |
| 2 | Verbs , nouns and adjectives that may take an infinitive with to may be followed by to without an infinitive to refer to a preceding verb or verbal group : Do n't go unless you want to ( Zandvoort 1957 ) . |
| 3 | It 's a very playable game with some teasing puzzles that could take a while to sus out . |
| 4 | He kept himself very much to himself , studying the ancient books he kept in the box beside his bed , doing his exercises , or playing himself at wei chi — long games that could take a day , sometimes even a week to complete . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field . |
| 6 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 7 | These small islands , usually no bigger than would take a house , are connected to the shore by a pavement which is under water when the loch is at normal level , and often the base of the island is reinforced with slabs of stone . |
| 8 | The fine gauge machine has a lace carriage , but as yet no one has developed a chunky machine that will take a lace carriage . |
| 9 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 10 | Basingstoke-based Penril Datacomm Networks Ltd has launched its new WANserver family , a modular chassis that can take a variety of local network , wide area network and asynchronous devices such as terminals or printers ; each chassis can support up to 34 wide area links , 272 async users or 1,200 Ethernet local network sessions Penril said . |
| 11 | ‘ A Phazer is not a miracle design that can take a junk board and make it a killer ’ , Milton said . |
| 12 | ‘ Come along , then , and let's take a look at you , ’ said McManus . |
| 13 | The tables were on a fixed budget and should take a fortnight . |
| 14 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 15 | Her ankle needed support and could take a bandage now , he said . |
| 16 | At 8.55 a.m. , school checking-in time , the teacher at the gate would check your fingernails and your ears , and would take a pencil and pull it through your hair — if the pencil got stuck then you would be sent home to tidy up . |
| 17 | After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing . |
| 18 | Amdahl Corp is cutting 9% of its staff worldwide , 600 of them to go in California , and will take a hit of between $15m and $20m against figures to cover it . |
| 19 | Swiss foods manufacturing giant Nestle SA has signed a worldwide agreement with Microsoft Corp to standardise its software on Windows : the contract covers a total of 30,000 users and will take a number of months to implement , but no financial terms were available ; software from WordPerfect Corp , Ashton-Tate Corp 's Multimate and Lotus Development Corp 's Lotus 1-2-3 will be replaced with Word 2.0 for Windows and Excel 4.0 ; Nestle will also use Microsoft Mail 3.0 , Microsoft Project 3.0 , Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 , and LAN Manager 2.2 will be the network operating system . |
| 20 | Pyramid Technology Corp is cutting some 110 jobs , about 10% of the total , and will take a restructuring charge of between $22m and $24m against figures for its fourth quarter ended September 30 . |
| 21 | If you have time and can take a couple of days over the job , wait until the water has drained away , and fill the hole again . |
| 22 | Discrimination Sexual and racial discrimination can be highly distressing and can take a variety of forms — you may be refused a job , miss out on promotion or suffer harassment by your employer or colleagues . |
| 23 | This permeability of the gut gradually decreases as the baby gets older , and consequently so do the risks of allergy , although this varies and can take a year or longer . |
| 24 | Germination is slow and can take a month in cold soil . |