Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember putting my foot down when some of my customers took a piece of their sausage as I was weighing it , and after a discerning chew they casually dropped the remaining small piece of chewed hard skin onto the floor of the shop . |
| 2 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 3 | GENERAL MOTORS of the US may build new facilities in the UK to support a major increase in Jaguar production as part of its plan to take a 30 per cent stake in the luxury car maker . |
| 4 | The agency 's recognition of its need to take a more aggressive stance in the Eighties was partly due to the appointment of former Ogilvy & Mather managing director Michael Baulk as chief executive in 1988 . |
| 5 | CNRS was host for the meeting partly because of its desire to take a leading role in Europe 's changing research landscape . |
| 6 | Guido was inviting her with a wave of his hand to take a seat on one of the sofas — there were four , all in soft pastel colours and piled with cushions . |
| 7 | Thereupon one of the companions of our bishop took a stone which had been blessed by all the people of God and hurled it from his sling after the manner of David . |