Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 2 | Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ? |
| 3 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 4 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 5 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 6 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 7 | We face real threats internationally from pollution , over-population , from famine , from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year . ’ |
| 8 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |
| 9 | Whilst the Spirit is ready to help prayerful communicators to guide them to hidden personal needs of which otherwise they would be unaware , he also expects us to take practical steps to discover the needs around us . |
| 10 | Your notebook is the tool which enables you to take any experience , any observation , any physical sensation and turn it into something which can be shared by others . |
| 11 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 12 | Mark 's acceptance at Oxford proves it takes different strokes , different brush strokes that is , to move the world . |
| 13 | GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks . |
| 14 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 15 | ‘ You see , ’ he said , ‘ retroscendence enables us to take any element in our visual field and , as it were , unpack its history . |
| 16 | Before the swim dies I take seven fish , all small chub up to 2lb . |
| 17 | Agassi is , like Becker one of those players who plays straight from the heart , and unless he sorts out what stops him taking winning opportunities — on an emotional as well as technical level — he may never fulfil his incredible potential . |
| 18 | He claims he took this picture of Mrs Hilali in Dahouk in Kurdistan last January when he says he saw her helping refugees . |
| 19 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |