Example sentences of "takes the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter takes the arrow away from me . |
| 2 | And Hall takes the pick of the crop , from comics , athletes and rappers . |
| 3 | And Hall takes the pick of the crop , from Brooke Shields ( who whom he posed the question , ‘ You came right out and said you were a virgin , right ? |
| 4 | Islam takes the Koran as its ultimate guide , and anything not mentioned in the Koran is likely to be rejected by the faithful . |
| 5 | Greeny is generally pretty good , like a laugh and takes the piss a bit too . |
| 6 | There 's the one when he scores against Sheff Utd a couple of years ago and takes the piss out of Vineyard , and the one when he scored for Scotland and tried to get his leg over ( oo-er ) the advertising boards . |
| 7 | Yes , yeah he was trying to put across a serious point but he did n't really succeed cos everybody just takes the piss out of his voice . |
| 8 | oh this takes the piss man , I bet you there 's no one in school with a cigarette in his arm |
| 9 | I mean but I mean I suppose it 's true with with Sonia and with Honey cos I mean like Honey 's a nice person , but there 's three things about her which are very bad , and that is like she takes the piss erm she 's lazy . |
| 10 | Then there sh she takes the piss , she 's lazy . |
| 11 | She agrees with everything I say , she 's never horrible to me , but when you 're around she 's really horrible to me and like , even though she 's agreed with something I 've said earlier , she just sort of goes yeah right Cassie ha ha ha it 's really funny and takes the piss out of it and you sort of go along with her and I just sort of have to stand there while you two stand there laughing at me and I do n't like it . |
| 12 | Oh that takes the piss . |
| 13 | Well we 're not the best of friends , she just takes the piss . |
| 14 | The customer selects items from the catalogue and the salesperson takes the order . |
| 15 | If the items are available , the computer then takes the order , processes it through the warehouse , transfers the information to the accounts department and prepares all the despatch documents . |
| 16 | ‘ New legal buzz takes the country 's raves by storm . |
| 17 | Grendon takes the country 's toughest and most violent criminals . |
| 18 | Sartre takes the slogan ‘ socialism in one country ’ as an example of the unintended but necessary product of the anti-labour of the Stalin-Trotsky conflict . |
| 19 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 20 | What do you think about the Nouveau Realistes , the creators of the Surrealist Object , whose work takes the idea of the object as its point of departure ? |
| 21 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 22 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 23 | He takes the idea of " culture " and disassembles it into its constituent parts ; he then goes on to argue , or assert , that it depends upon a class system , upon a variety of regionalism and upon the family . |
| 24 | If an idea originator takes the idea to management prematurely , he or she may get little action . |
| 25 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 26 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 27 | If one takes the position that human right to life is absolute , then one must show a morally relevant difference between human and animal life that justifies denying that an animal 's right to life is absolute , and I believe we have shown that such a difference is not readily found . |
| 28 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 29 | In ‘ Barchester Towers ’ though it is actually Dr. Proudie who takes the position wanted by Dr. Grantly , he is made out to be a rather insignificant and weak person whereas Mrs. Proudie is seen at once to be strong and authoritative , too much so , and Trollope makes of her the kind of character a reader loves to hate . |
| 30 | Withdrawing the needle , Sophie said , ‘ It remains to be seen how he takes the shock . |