Example sentences of "take one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 2 | It could n't take one cylinder of it |
| 3 | As to timescales , I have estimated that Project 1 will take one year full-time equivalent , and Project 2 will take three years full-time equivalent . |
| 4 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 5 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 6 | They 'll take one look at my clothes and know I 'm as poor as a church mouse . ’ |
| 7 | They 're gon na take one look at you and run the other way ! |
| 8 | The time involved is also a major factor : in the 10 m x 10 m piece of forest in Costa Rica , discussed in Chapter 1 , the analysis took 192 man-hours , in other words , a full hectare would take one man a decade ! |
| 9 | there 's twenty twenty men , right five hours to big hole , how long would it take one man . |
| 10 | How long did it take one man . |
| 11 | As a principle 1 will take one minute to communicate with my people , explaining why their urgent problem will have to be dealt with tomorrow . " |
| 12 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 13 | It would only take one phone call to blow her cover . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's bad if we ca n't take one day off , ’ he said laughingly . |
| 15 | Those moving under 100 miles may take one day off work ; those moving over 100 miles receive two days . |
| 16 | I was interested in my work and I did not take one day 's holiday during the next two years . |
| 17 | The children should take one bottle each , or the milk should be distributed one-to-one by a ‘ monitor ’ . |
| 18 | Er it 's no good saying you 'll turn down the central heating and you 'll only take one holiday instead of two , that 's not really the purpose of retirement , and I think you 've got to be objective about what you 're doing with this . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't take one decision on a particular area of reform in isolation because everything relates to some other aspect , so we are carrying the study of the different components of reform forward on a broad front . ’ |
| 20 | Cooney cuts out talk about Tyson with : ‘ I 'll take one fight at a time . ’ |
| 21 | Cooney cuts out talk about Tyson with : ‘ I 'll take one fight at a time . ’ |
| 22 | I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you |
| 23 | If I could just take one example to illustrate this . |
| 24 | Let me take one example of mismatch between individual goals and organizational objectives . |
| 25 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 26 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 27 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 28 | And he would take one ear and then the other ear and pull it through the slots on the bonnet . |
| 29 | You can go along there and make crafts cards and Christmas presents no experience is necessary and you can take one object home each day and the remaining items will be sold at a Christmas Craft Fair to raise funds for the arts project . |
| 30 | Oh , I 'll take one box , there you are oh jolly good |