Example sentences of "[pers pn] take the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Had I taken the latter course , the result might have been embarrassment rather than accident . |
3 | . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops . |
4 | As with all my ablutions , the shave follows a definite and predetermined pattern ; I take the same number of strokes of the same length in the same sequence each morning . |
5 | If you take the latter point of view but you will also put your client 's character . |
6 | If we take the former interpretation of the increase in rape reporting then this would mean that not only are more men raping , but also the judiciary is increasingly allowing them to get away with it . |
7 | If we take the former option , i.e. if we lay down that only " eternal " propositions shall be genuine propositions , then this threatens to blur the distinction between contingent and necessary truth . |
8 | Rather , it has set out to demonstrate how seriously we take the many connections between pupil and teacher language and learning and teaching in schools , and to describe something of how staff and students proceed . |
9 | ( In no state where they are evaluated do they take the same value . ) |
10 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’ |
11 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
12 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
13 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
14 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
15 | They took the same tube for the first few stops . |
16 | Nicholas ( 3.10 ) : No , they take the same room . |
17 | It takes the same amount of fuel to cook for 20 as it does to cook for 10 . |
18 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
19 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
20 | When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach . |
21 | Altogether he won fifteen caps for England , and , in the 1938 series against Australia , he took the most wickets , 17 at a cost of 34.17 each . |
22 | I e it would not be a problem for me to take the same line as either or any of my er opponents , or the incumbent Mr , erm you know , if they are , frankly , right . |