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 .
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