Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 2 | When people do cross the threshold of the church , do we make it easy for them to take that step ? |
| 3 | yeah so they 've agreed for me to take fifteen pound a week instead of ten |
| 4 | I 've found that it was very necessary for me to take some time to get a grasp of what is a very complex situation and it would be rather foolish to jump in too quickly . |
| 5 | When I regressed her , Eileen did in fact describe to me a happy , boisterous childhood with her sister and her six brothers — all of whom took great delight in spoiling their baby sister . |
| 6 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 7 | Most of the other dancers in the company were straight from school , some of them taking leading parts while only about fifteen . |
| 8 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 9 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 10 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 11 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 12 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |
| 13 | In addition , the complexity of the purely military aspects of the conflict advised the appointment of someone to take overall command of the Armed Forces . |
| 14 | Equally , governments ' ability to enforce subsequent agreements , will depend both on the existing efficiency and administrative capacity of local States , and on the legitimacy of their taking positive action to defend the global environment , in the eyes of local interest groups . |
| 15 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 16 | It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day . |
| 17 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |
| 18 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |
| 19 | ( Moreover , the very fact of our taking that look can , as Werner Heisenberg pointed out , anyway affect the behaviour of the particle concerned . |
| 20 | Well sorry , Anne , but I know too much about you to take this drivel . ’ |
| 21 | I said to Julie about the washing I said to Julie I said you 're at home how about you taking this washing machine with you when you go because you 're paying . |
| 22 | It is necessary for you to take this kind of positive approach ; think in terms of maximizing the number of nutrients that you derive from food by eating the right kind of balance of different foods during meals . |
| 23 | Can you see a young man with a background like his taking any interest in a girl from Whitechapel ? ’ |
| 24 | You wanted to abandon it by the side of the road , but I made you push it on , with myself taking short spells of pushing . |
| 25 | The manager replied it was cleaned out that morning , and came with us to take another look . |
| 26 | The third respect in which Galileo 's theologizing backfired arose from his taking that office upon himself . |
| 27 | In many cases this invisible emptiness inside us takes visible form . |
| 28 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 29 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
| 30 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |