Example sentences of "and [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accommodation was pretty rough-and-ready but the people were friendly and warm-hearted , and I took endless delight in exploring on foot the wild landscapes of lakes and forest , mountain waterfalls and paths as rich with alpine flowers as a medieval tapestry . |
| 2 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 3 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 4 | As we got round the corner , Jo and I took one look at each other and ran . |
| 5 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |
| 6 | The beast did n't appear to have seen me and I took several photographs . |
| 7 | Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season . |
| 8 | ‘ I love our business and I take great pride in it . |
| 9 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 10 | We now have trust status , however , and I take this opportunity to congratulate the team on its application . |
| 11 | That this ‘ slippage ’ is so slight is due to the fact that the other Enterprise staff have worked a great deal of extra time and taken on extra responsibilities and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work and support during this period . |
| 12 | A summary of export mission achievements is shown on page 10 of this Report and I take this opportunity to thank all those who have led Scottish Council missions during 1989/90 for their excellent support . |
| 13 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 14 | The national Youth in Transport Competition , now in its third year , also continues to attract interest : this year we had even more entries and sponsors , and I take this opportunity of congratulating all the prizewinners , and of thanking the sponsors of this valuable and far-reaching scheme . |
| 15 | I feel that the facilities provided by the Careers Service have never had greater significance and I take some consolation in knowing that the current team is well structured and dedicated to providing the best possible service in finding careers and fulfilment for graduates from the University ’ . |
| 16 | I have a blister under my right ear , and I take twenty-five drops of laudanum every five hours , the ease and spirits gained by which have enabled me to write you this flighty but not exaggerated account . |
| 17 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And you took great pains to stress that you 've steered well clear of them , ’ he pointed out . |
| 19 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 20 | And who took that decision ? |
| 21 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 22 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 23 | She listened to me and she took copious notes , but it was as if her understanding was glazed over . |
| 24 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
| 25 | You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely . |
| 26 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 27 | ‘ At the Roman Soprintendenza we hold the role of the restorer in very high esteem , and we take full account of our restorers ’ periodic reports on the state of conservation of works in our museums ’ . |
| 28 | We make every effort to provide information for donors about how their donations are used and we take positive steps to seek donors ' views . |
| 29 | We were very close in the sense that I could ask him anything at any time , and we took great pleasure in each other 's company . ’ |
| 30 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |