Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld . |
| 2 | I recognise them and with each recognition I take some comfort . |
| 3 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 4 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 5 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 6 | ‘ As an optimist you take first prize , Aunt . ’ |
| 7 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 8 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 9 | In future you take preventative measures . |
| 10 | If you want a bigger car you take another test . |
| 11 | The aid itself took various forms : arms and ammunition , including perhaps 1,000 aircraft and 700 tanks ; Soviet and Comintern military — and political — advisers ; and the International Brigades : a total of nearly 60,000 foreign volunteers from all corners of the world , many of them refugees from fascist regimes or veterans of anti-fascist struggles , recruited and trained in the main by Communists . |
| 12 | In the Channel 1 class the leading boats from last weekend 's Beaufort Dyke Off-shore Race should feature strongly including the J Class Jacana owned by Maurice Flowers of Ballyholme Yacht Club , the race-winner and Roy Hamilton 's Commanche Raider from Carrick Sailing Club who took second place last weekend . |
| 13 | In all probability not a single fox will live or die as a consequence of any vote we take this afternoon . |
| 14 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 15 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 16 | But there are so many things to gladden the heart which take little time and no money . |
| 17 | the organization of native pastimes and the promotion of athletic fitness as a means to create disciplined , self-reliant , national-minded manhood which takes conscious pride in its heritage of unrivalled pastimes and splendid cultural traditions as essential factors in the restoration of full and distinct nationhood . |
| 18 | Anita Skinner 's gentle watercolour landscapes — ‘ the creativity of nature requiring no embellishment ’ — find contrast on the upper floor with Kay Ritchie 's work which takes natural themes a step into the abstract with strong use of colour . |
| 19 | Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them . |
| 20 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 21 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 22 | At home they took such things without comment . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 24 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 25 | Well that th this is why I put the memo that if it 's rejected by the tractor driver who takes that trailer out , |
| 26 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 27 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 28 | I took a retirement I took early retirement coming in the |
| 29 | It is a vicious circle which takes some breaking , as many girls on Tour would be the first to admit . |
| 30 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |