Example sentences of "[noun sg] take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I discuss this issue often with tourists I take trekking in rural Nepal , and my line is that the photograph takes second place to the opportunity for personal contact and an understanding of the culture . |
| 2 | Third , the administration takes strategic control of the economy . |
| 3 | The college takes 500 pupils from across the world and decided to call in debt collectors as a last resort . |
| 4 | ‘ Coherence ’ in trade policy is an elusive quality , whether or not the president takes active charge of it . |
| 5 | The Library Association took legal advice on whether they could take action , but were apparently advised that they did not have the ‘ locus ’ to intervene in this way . |
| 6 | Almost equal , but not quite , because Luke still seemed to retain a vestige of control while she trembled wildly as his hands slid adroitly up over her ribcage to cup her breasts from beneath , lifting them to the swooping descent of his dark head ; and she heard him mutter intensely again just before his mouth took voluptuous possession of the heated hardness of one exquisitely sensitive nipple . |
| 7 | Labour took 11 seats from the Tories in the 1990 local elections . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) mentioned Derbyshire county council ; I remind the hon. Gentleman that Labour took Amber Valley in the local elections in May . |
| 9 | Media Action took 300 calls during the week and issued 200 fact packs . |
| 10 | The trainer took daily charge of the team , and on match days the manager just sat in the stand . |
| 11 | Glenn Clements , a burly policeman who took a break from his job to be in charge of the Pinnochio group , says : ‘ I 've got four kids and I get far more pleasure taking these children on holiday than I do my own . ’ |
| 12 | The interview took 30 minutes for each manager . |
| 13 | The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’ |
| 14 | All around the conference centre , the message was the same from all but the largely isolated activists of the hard-left : differences on the detail of Neil Kinnock 's policy review took second place to its status as Labour 's only route-map to political power . |
| 15 | In the last days of the campaign Churchill returned to the attack , pointing out the danger to the parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party posed by the National Executive ; but Attlee replied patiently , explaining the constitutional position of himself and his colleagues as he saw it ; naturally his supporters — with the exception of Laski himself — did not gainsay his arguments , and on the whole the electorate took little interest in the discussion . |
| 16 | Even younger hopefuls , like Nigel Williams and Paul Bryers ( whose recent The Adultery Department took inexplicable potshots at Seventies-style communal living ) , seem to borrow their stylistic and thematic ideas from Brian Rix rather than Evelyn Waugh . |
| 17 | British colonial rule took different forms in Zimbabwe and Zambia . |
| 18 | That was a case in which the defendant took two bottles of whisky from the shelves and put them in her shopping bag . |
| 19 | The local Rathfriland club took first place in the club team category . |
| 20 | After a break during the Franco-Prussian war , in which he was actively involved , though not as a combatant , his thoughts on tragedy took final shape in 1871 . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously he is just trying to wind people up , but I think I 'm too long in the tooth to take any notice of anything he says . |
| 22 | Boughton 's string-based ensemble take evident pleasure in Barber 's grateful , singing phrases : a flexible modest sound . |
| 23 | The spinal column and the neck take enough punishment with the existing road surfaces without having speed humps inflicted on them . |
| 24 | Robin-Anne nodded , but was too busy eating to take much notice of her brother , though she did manage to mumble that she thought the diet soda was really kind of good . |
| 25 | It can either tough it out , claiming virtue in its readiness to take hard decisions in the national interest ; or it can assemble safeguards and concessions and proclaim compassion for the neediest . |
| 26 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 27 | Inevitably they argue that life stress events and family demographic variables are also important , and it may be the failure of much research to take these variables into account ( and probably the problems of doing so ) which explains why a stronger relationship between early attachment and behaviour and later adjustment is not found . |
| 28 | Champions , Redcar , became the only side to take maximum points over the double weekend . |
| 29 | The first reaction is to reassure Mr Gorbachev that there was no bold US ambition to take strategic advantage of the collapse of Moscow 's empire . |
| 30 | The engineers at SUNY are trying to convince the city 's department of transportation to take seismic loading into account for its new bridges . |