Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shall I take out the other one ? ’ |
| 2 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 3 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 4 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 5 | I took down the battered , broken-spined A-Z I keep taped to the driver 's sun visor and pretended to be looking something up . |
| 6 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 7 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 8 | She took up the beautiful veil you bought me , put it on her own head , then turned to admire herself in the mirror . |
| 9 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 10 | Tearing open a pocket in her bag , she took out the offending objects and thrust them towards Rourke . |
| 11 | She took out the small parcel and ran downstairs . |
| 12 | She took out the red spray and in letters a foot high , began " Greenham Common Women … " |
| 13 | She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated . |
| 14 | You , you take up the normal I do n't tend to do this , but this is really the best way to do the shot . |
| 15 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 16 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 17 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 18 | The two pluses are books , thanks largely to Addison Wesley , thankfully decisively so and the oil services business and the only other item worth reflecting , I think worth er , remarking on , is in fact that if you take out the black hole effect er , the entertainment fall was only two million and I think that is a creditable performance . |
| 19 | Free gifts when you take out the Personal Accident Plan |
| 20 | erm On the other hand , if you take the variety , you in fact leave it very mixed still , because you take your relatively small quantity out each time you go round , and you 're taking a relatively small number of species , so that if you are logging in a tropical forest at the sort of intensity most logging takes place , you 're only creating gaps where you take out the valuable species and leave the less valuable species . |
| 21 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 22 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
| 23 | We took over the entire eighth floor of the Grosvenor House Hotel , had a suite each , turned one bedroom into a VIP lounge , another into a Space Invaders arcade for Davis and yet another into a private cinema for Tony Meo to watch Rocky films . |
| 24 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 25 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 26 | With Domestic Factoring , we purchase your book debts on a continuous basis and provide four basic services : an immediate advance of up to 80% of the value of invoices ; credit management and sales ledger administration — we take over the time-consuming chores of sending out statements and chasing late payers ; credit protection — we can , if required , take 100% of the credit risk on agreed customers ; and facility for growth — our service can expand as your company grows . |
| 27 | ‘ If we take off the reedbed 's top 30cm of vegetation — just enough so that we do not kill off the reeds — and put in some new dykes to give a good water flow we will restore the reedbed to its former glory . ’ |
| 28 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 29 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 30 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |