Example sentences of "he [verb] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 2 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 3 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 4 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 5 | He failed to take a wicket at Sydney in the next Test , and helped Gibbs to a reciprocal three wickets in four balls by falling to the first he received . |
| 6 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 7 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 8 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 9 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 10 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 11 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 12 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 13 | But since the arrival of Robins , he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman . |
| 14 | For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break . |
| 15 | A CRAZED donkey nearly tore the arm off an eight-year-old boy as he stopped to take a holiday snap . |
| 16 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 17 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 18 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 19 | He later admitted he 'd taken a tablet supplied by another pupil . |
| 20 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |
| 21 | He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way . |
| 22 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 23 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 24 | Passionately anxious to serve Carlotta , he undertakes to take a message from her to Don Manuel , at a time when he and his followers are seriously threatened by the dictator . |
| 25 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 26 | When 's he going to take a lot of this then ? |
| 27 | Ungo went briefly into exile , but in 1979 he returned to take a seat on a civilian-military junta , resigning after three months [ see pp. 30045-46 ; 30322 ] . |
| 28 | He began to take a liking to John Lydon , who beneath the carefully cultivated exterior of ennui , Branson recognised as being extremely bright , ‘ if rather lazy ’ . |
| 29 | So intrigued did Charlie become by these seemingly endless selling opportunities that he started to take a tram up to the West End on a Sunday morning just to see for himself . |
| 30 | Suddenly he decided to take a chance : somehow they would get Therese on to the stage in that ridiculous boy 's costume and let her sing . |