Example sentences of "[pers pn] take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An' I took the bloody pill . |
| 2 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 3 | I took the easy way out . |
| 4 | I took the small knife from my left breast pocket and nicked my left thumb carefully . |
| 5 | I took the small thing out of his hand . |
| 6 | Later , I took the then editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Screeton , there . |
| 7 | It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy . |
| 8 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 9 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 10 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 11 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 12 | I took the long cut home . |
| 13 | I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert . |
| 14 | ‘ I took the religious name of Agatha , really my own , but if you ask the Lady Prioress , she will tell you I entered these walls as Marie Savigny . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ As to the time of death , I took the internal body temperature at eight o'clock . |
| 16 | His eyes lingered a dry moment on mine , as if to make sure I took the implicit compliment ; and then , as if to limit it , he turned out the lamp . |
| 17 | I took the other half , inspecting it in a similar manner . |
| 18 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 19 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 20 | I took the welcome opportunity to stand up . |
| 21 | After lunch in Sunderland , I took the coastal route home , hoping the notorious Hartlepool to Middlesbrough line could secure my fortune . |
| 22 | Feeling ridiculous , I took the next train straight back . |
| 23 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |
| 24 | In my father 's house , I took the back room . |
| 25 | I TOOK the little cinder that was the remains of the wasp and put it into a matchbox , wrapped in an old photograph of Eric with my father . |
| 26 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 27 | I took the seven hour road journey to Siret with my friend Diana . |
| 28 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 29 | I took the dramatic Poem Maud by Tennyson — all fourteen hundred lines — and learnt them and presented them working with two friends , a designer and a lighting man . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |