Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beast did n't appear to have seen me and I took several photographs . |
| 2 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 3 | I have a blister under my right ear , and I take twenty-five drops of laudanum every five hours , the ease and spirits gained by which have enabled me to write you this flighty but not exaggerated account . |
| 4 | ‘ And you took great pains to stress that you 've steered well clear of them , ’ he pointed out . |
| 5 | She listened to me and she took copious notes , but it was as if her understanding was glazed over . |
| 6 | We make every effort to provide information for donors about how their donations are used and we take positive steps to seek donors ' views . |
| 7 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 8 | No Epigas screw-in cartridges are available other than in Grenoble , and we took enough meths for the Trangia . |
| 9 | There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it . |
| 10 | And we took those floors out cos they were recent and and we put these arch braces back in again using the pattern that . |
| 11 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 12 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 13 | And they takes lovely photos . |
| 14 | And he took two cartridges out of his pocket . |
| 15 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 16 | In July 1978 , his ambitions on the educational front were well stoked up and he took six CSEs . |
| 17 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 18 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 19 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 20 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 21 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 22 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 23 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 24 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 25 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 26 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 27 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 28 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 29 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 30 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |