Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before people could generally read , learning was by word of mouth and much took place in the countryside along the paths , particular truths being imparted at certain places , which thereby took on special significance . |
| 2 | In the presidential elections held on Feb. 2 , 1986 [ see p. 34350 ] , Oscar Arias Sánchez of the social democratic National Liberation Party ( Partido de Liberación Nacional — PLN ) won 52.3 per cent of the vote and duly took office on May 8 . |
| 3 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 4 | His big hand enclosed hers , ruthlessly prised her fingers from the key and insolently took possession of it . |
| 5 | But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ . |
| 6 | She would make the best of these few days up here , work and yet take time to relax and most of all to forget Fernando Serra . |
| 7 | Later she mastered Braille , learned to type and later took lessons from a teacher for the deaf so that she could go to school , then college and later spent her life lecturing all over the world . |
| 8 | He tried to devise new and better ways of operating the machines in the bottle works where he was employed and , realizing that he needed to increase his knowledge of science and mathematics if he was to exploit his ideas , he went in the evenings to the nearby Mechanics ' Institute and also took lessons in trigonometry from a local clergyman . |
| 9 | She works intensively from nine to six , skipping lunch and often taking work home to do after her two children , William , 9 , and Charlotte , 7 , have gone to bed . |
| 10 | Grizzly and Kodiak bears ( brown bears ) are land-based and mainly herbivorous , feeding on roots , shoots , berries , wild honey and occasionally taking fish , small mammals and birds , and offal . |
| 11 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 13 | In the wind orchestra they form a useful group , backing up the horns in the heart of the band and sometimes taking solo parts . |
| 14 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 15 | He was narrowly pipped at the post on time in the prestigious Derby event and also took runner-up in another speed event . |
| 16 | In the early days slalomists paddled a World Championships in slalom and then the same paddlers , using the same boats , took part in a WWR to make it more of an event , just as a K1 sprint paddler might take part in a 500m race and also take part in a 10km event at the same regatta . |
| 17 | But Alton restricted the opposition to four points in that opening spell and then took control to score four good tries themselves . |
| 18 | A new survey shows that one in three students gets drunk once a week and also takes drugs at parties . |
| 19 | Robyn arrived at Luke 's later than she had expected — far later — flustered and hot from busy traffic and wrongly taken turns , tense as the prospect of seeing Luke again became reality . |
| 20 | ( i ) Environmental Studies in which the child learns more about his or her environment and actually takes part in activities such as gardening and home science which help to control it and make it productive . |
| 21 | Go forward ( not on the track of the farm ) across ( first ) field to where the wall meets fence to the right of the farm and here take gate into second field . |
| 22 | He 'd been a hard man to work for , but he taught Billy everything he knew about that garden and how to take care of it . |
| 23 | He turned to Emily and kissed her hand and then took Hari in his arms in a bear hug of an embrace . |
| 24 | The haulier should therefore take the utmost care in selecting a good insurance broker and then take advantage of his skill and expertise . |
| 25 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
| 26 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |
| 27 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |
| 28 | ‘ Our dynamic legislative leaders drank coffee and occasionally took notes , but they rarely were given a chance to say anything . ’ |
| 29 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 30 | ABC offers the unique opportunity for us to expand in the general trade market and simultaneously take advantage of its very successful relationship with speciality booksellers . ’ |