Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took this Whitley up for 10 , 15 maybe 20 minutes and just made quite sure that all the engines were running perfectly , made a spot check on each engine and tested its flying capabilities — hands off and a few simple things in everyday testing . |
| 2 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 3 | So she took some tea and some bread-and-butter while she thought about it . |
| 4 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 5 | So we take some trends and ignore others . |
| 6 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 7 | He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory . |
| 8 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 9 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 10 | ‘ Normally I take 30 copies of this paper , ’ said one . |
| 11 | She if you 've only had to have an you ca n't just say ooh watch your and er every time we 've away you take four times as much as it , it 's possible to wear ! |
| 12 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 13 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 14 | Thus it takes considerable courage and persistence at times for the carer to press the needs of the dependent , let alone her/his personal needs . |
| 15 | Presumably you took those chicken things downstairs for me yesterday ? |
| 16 | Eventually she took some goods her husband had left at her lodgings to the Police Station . |
| 17 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 18 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 19 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 20 | Even now she takes such pleasure in the simplest things . ’ |
| 21 | ( Now they take good care to live well out of sight of them ) . |
| 22 | Often they take casual jobs , and William Gaminara has turned his experience as an out-of-work thesp into a sparky new play at the Hampstead Theatre . |
| 23 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 24 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 25 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 26 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 27 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 28 | Eighteen months ago I took early retirement . |
| 29 | The island is a mixture of high mountains , craggy coastline , sandy beaches , deep blue sea , and music and laughter from the people here who take fierce pride in their independence , their curling moustaches and the fiery local brew — Raki . |
| 30 | In our opinion , the duty is not simply one to take reasonable care in the abstract , but to take reasonable care not to injure a person whom it should reasonably have been foreseen may be injured by the act or neglect if such care is not taken . |