Example sentences of "but take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 2 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
| 3 | But taking the objective Macdonald view in this first season back in the Premier Division , survival was his first concern for Airdrie , the avoidance of relegation for a club which in realistic terms has no money to buy quality players , crowds averaging less than 5,000 and a creaking , obsolute stadium . |
| 4 | Not only did the existence of a divided society help fuel party tensions under William and Anne , but taking the longer perspective covered by this book as a whole , it might even be fair to suggest that the emergence of the party divide amongst the political elite was itself a symptom of the bitter divisions that already existed in this society , divisions which we have traced back to the Restoration in 1660 . |
| 5 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |