Example sentences of "[det] [verb] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 2 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 3 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 4 | Would that include taking a stake in the er , the Fairfax float when erm , that takes place later this year ? |
| 5 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 6 | This involves taking a risk : there may well be expression of anger or despair or criticism of the group or ( more commonly ) the church . |
| 7 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 8 | This included taking a sample from each section of files to identify the type and quantity of file contents and the level of time-expired material , and also analysing daily activity rates for file creation , up-dating , movements in and out , weeding/culling and file transfer or destruction . |
| 9 | For some , as in the Roman Catholic Church , this means taking a vow of celibacy ; for some entering religious orders it means taking the vows of celibacy , poverty and obedience . |
| 10 | Yet some did take a step of great courage . |
| 11 | This does take a bit of sussing out , but once mastered it all makes sense . |
| 12 | Even when Archbishop Thomas died , he was succeeded by a new archbishop , Gerard , who was already bishop of Hereford , and as such had taken an oath of obedience to Anselm . |
| 13 | Now we are all invited to take a look at the same subject . |
| 14 | Every morning before we went to school , we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full . |
| 15 | In 1272 Kilwardby , in 1399 Salmon of Norwich , and in 1303 Gainsborough of Worcester were all required to take an oath to receive their lands at the king 's pleasure and not by papal grant , an oath which was thereafter usual whenever a bishop obtained his see by provision . |
| 16 | That meant taking a saw to the top , higher than the tree surgeons had ever climbed before . |
| 17 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 18 | I know that wishes to take a photograph of the Chairman and myself on Wednesday |
| 19 | That means taking an interest in little things as well as big ones . |
| 20 | Most Ethernet adaptors support both thin and thick coax ; in fact they both tend to take a twist-on BNC connector . |