Example sentences of "[pron] takes [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greater Manchester 's area extends from Tameside in the east to Wigan in the west , and here it borders on Merseyside , which takes in the metropolitan districts of Knowsley , Liverpool , St Helens , Sefton and Wirral . |
| 2 | Jane Fowler appreciates her own failings as she takes to the open road with an advanced driving instructor |
| 3 | Then , years later — and she takes after the tall side of the family — she said , ‘ Now I am creature great , and you are creature small . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever view one takes of the electoral fortunes of the Liberal and Labour Parties before 1914 , the Conservative party was clearly losing — three general election defeats in a row and no significant signs of an electoral revival . |
| 5 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 6 | It takes about the same time to do a simple drawing on a 2D machine as on a drawing board . |
| 7 | Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two |
| 8 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 9 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 10 | The present map ( figure 3.1 ) shows an axis of high density extending broadly south-eastwards from the southern Pennines , where it takes in the industrial conurbations of Lancashire , Merseyside , and South Yorkshire , through the Midlands to the London conurbation . |
| 11 | Lavishly illustrated , it takes in the full history of Sally B , the Great Warbirds Air Display and the personalities that have kept the UK 's largest privately-operated warbird going . |
| 12 | A camera with a wide-angle lens is fixed high up on the wall at a point where it takes in the widest angle of the room . |
| 13 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 14 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities . |
| 15 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 16 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 17 | Tomorrow he takes in a further round of 125cc British championship at Donington Park and after his ninth spot in the Supercup at a wet Oulton last weekend he 'll be one of the leading contenders . |
| 18 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |