Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 2 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 4 | Villa had always been in command , but a combination of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping by David Seaman prevented them taking full advantage . |
| 5 | The side letter advised her to take independent advice . |
| 6 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 7 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 8 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 9 | She said , well , she said , I asked you to take four people home and you said , No I 'm sorry . |
| 10 | To break this cycle we asked the women to aim at eating three meals each day and encouraged them to take small steps to reach this goal . |
| 11 | He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him . |
| 12 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 13 | In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action . |
| 14 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 15 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 16 | Gazzer saw her take one hand off the top of the gates and jam it into a wide split in the wood , then she crouched down and grabbed Simon 's jacket with the other hand . |
| 17 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 18 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 19 | As we had referred to Turkey and the fact that Margaret and I had met there , and as we knew he took great interest in genuine peasant culture , we showed him some Turkish embroidery and in particular two typical Turkish saddle-bags , which we had transformed into cushions . |
| 20 | From 1984 the anti-nuclear policy of the then newly elected Labour Government in New Zealand led it to take successive steps which the United States regarded as contrary to its obligations under the Pacific Security Treaty . |
| 21 | Did I take that picture ? |
| 22 | Right come on Chris let's go , in fact run upstairs and put that on your bed quickly , come on , double away better put that woman 's gloves somewhere safe did you take that change that was lying there , well Matt I 'll need some for his dinner , oh , no alright Laura |
| 23 | mm , did you take that tape out in the other room ? |
| 24 | Why did you take such trouble to make me believe you wished to marry Miss Ingram ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Did you take any photos ? ’ asked Prevert . |
| 26 | And what did you take this morning , Postman Pat ? |
| 27 | But you know , why did you take these policies out , you know the ten pound , ten pound , ten pound |
| 28 | ‘ Where did you take these hits ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When you went out , did you take those prisoners with you ? ’ |
| 30 | How long did it take one man . |