Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] take some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter .
2 But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix .
3 When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) .
4 All the aermacchis are destroyed , so he takes some marines to make a reconnaissance across the island , his objective Goose Green .
5 Cos I took some photographs of Sammy , he got a picture of Sammy in there , picture of Nat .
6 Your application will be considered more favourably if you take some money with you .
7 My God , yes , if you take some sand in your hand , if you look at it closely and also water , and also air , they are all colourless , looked " at in this way .
8 If we take some diesel down when we go ,
9 He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time
10 The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion .
11 In another recent case , two-year-old James Austin , who had been left strapped into his baby seat by his mother , was driven away while she took some refuse to a rubbish dump some 50 yards from her parked car .
12 And one time in Austin it was really bad 'cos we took some acid before we played and I felt really small , like I could n't do anything , like wooahh ! , like vertigo .
13 Yeah , do n't you feel as though you take some care of them .
14 It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) .
15 Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up .
16 Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’
17 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
18 Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy-hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment .
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