Example sentences of "that [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then suggested that she take small steps , one at a time , further into the depths of the cupboard — remembering that this was all in her imagination and that she was still feeling totally relaxed . |
| 2 | Figs 7 and 8 show a couple of illustrative fingerings ; as you play through these make sure that you take careful note of the formulae that are written underneath the notation . |
| 3 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 4 | Many police officers will want to remind the Home Secretary as he prepares his response to the Sheahy report that they take special risks and deserve special treatment . |
| 5 | The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies . |
| 6 | I feel , however , that it takes insufficient account of the natural caution and pragmatism of the British people , which was admirably reflected in the negotiating approach of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Cabinet . |
| 7 | Chris Hook claims that it takes expert knowledge and a great deal of patience to hack into a computer system . |
| 8 | ‘ It teaches you to be patient and determined , and reminds you that it takes hard work and practice when things are n't going right . ’ |
| 9 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 10 | The dominion status declaration was made in October 1929 and met on the Congress side by what amounted to a demand that it take immediate effect . |
| 11 | The Guide-lines Commission interpreted an ambiguous statutory injunction that it take correctional resources into ‘ substantial consideration ’ as a mandate that its guide-lines not increase prison population beyond existing capacity constraints ( Tonry 1988 ) . |
| 12 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 14 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 15 | When Max Streibl , the incumbent , recently ran into trouble over allegations that he took free trips from a defence company , Mr Waigel spied an escape from his travails in Bonn . |