Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | All rounder Kevin Dixon has made a big impact , hitting two half centuries and also taking wickets . |
2 | Anarchy on a smaller scale is provided by photographer Kurt Buchwald who set up a ‘ Photography Forbidden ’ sign in front of innocuous subjects and then took photographs to see what happened . |
3 | Nicknamed Cold Turkey , it was used to ferry supplies and personnel from the mainland to the New Guinea battlefields and also took part in the Nadzab landing which , at the time , was the world 's largest airborne troop assault . |
4 | Q I am taking a course of antibiotics and continually take anti-histamine tablets . |
5 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
6 | Ken liked cruises and frequently took Lou on them , too . |
7 | But if it is the case , simply and conclusively , that music ‘ must intervene actively in consciousness through its own forms and not take instructions from … the consciousness of the user ’ ( quoted in Held 1980 : 83 ) , the baby has gone as well as the bath water and utopian critique begins to look suspiciously like spiritual determinism , autonomy like repression . |
8 | Never disturb nests or baby birds and never take eggs from a nest — even if they seem abandoned . |
9 | The theory of representative government clearly requires that they be called the servants of the minister , providing information and evidence on policy alternatives but not taking policy decisions . |
10 | It still behoved the middle class trader to play fair with his customers and not take advantage of good-natured country parsons and ignorant members of the labouring classes . |
11 | Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards . |
12 | Does he agree that gas is better not only because it is transported through its own pipelines and therefore takes transport off the road , but because it is green-clean and thermally more efficient ? |
13 | And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge . |
14 | However , this comment conflicts with statements made back in September , when the company said it was saddened by users employing the handsets solely as cordless phones and not taking advantage of the Rabbit network . |
15 | Watch makers were forced at one time to accept either bread tickets or else take payment in cheap watches which they could sell only at a loss . |
16 | ‘ At the same time the PR navs , who , at heart , are quite snooty about this bombing business , will be learning about cameras and how to take pictures and , having taken them , how to interpret them . |