Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in .
2 Unless she 's took three quarters of turkey back .
3 Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ?
4 It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved .
5 This stage takes little time after pauses , L1 originals , and the resource person 's voicings have been edited out .
6 However , this idealized picture takes little account of reality .
7 THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water .
8 Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand .
9 Finally he delivers him off to be crucified , and he takes that bowl of water and washes his hands thinking he 's absolved from guilt , but you do n't get rid of Jesus that easily .
10 Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this
11 The interviewer takes each achievement in turn , starting with the earliest , and enquires in fine detail what it was interviewees did and how .
12 In the Express , Robert Kilroy-Silk takes another swipe at Bryan Gould .
13 Kelman ( 1988 ) in particular takes this kind of line , pointing out that those most opposed to the Vietnam war were those who had no chance of actually going there and being in danger .
14 If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts .
15 Suppose the central bank takes this line of argument seriously and opts for the following policy rule : where n is a constant .
16 Under-fire England boss takes fresh heart from Brazil draw
17 Under-fire England boss takes fresh heart from Brazil draw
18 This description of the extended professional takes some account of Stenhouse 's criticism of Hoyle 's earlier formulation which seemed to emphasise an uncritical acceptance of theory and consequently reduced teacher autonomy .
19 To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time .
20 A good Orc warlord takes such things into account when he draws up his battlelines , but even the best commander will be lucky to avoid the effects of Animosity altogether .
21 In Billingham Mrs Ruby Beckwith takes early retirement from Ash Trees School next month after 25 years of teaching , and Mrs Margaret Llewellyn based at Billingham Campus retires later this year after 18 years in the profession .
22 Mr Peter Sutherland will end a 20-year teaching career when he takes early retirement from Tilery Primary School in the summer , at the same time as Mr James Burton retires from Bishopsgarth School after ten years in the profession .
23 The whole brewing process takes 10 days from start to finish .
24 OfficePower takes central stage in ICL 's overall strategy as combined hardware , software and services revenues associated with the environment in all of its guises now amounts to some £1,200m , according to Graham Taylor , ICL UK 's software business manager .
25 The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb .
26 It is contoured to give excellent line lay and takes 100 metres of 2½lb line .
27 Jilted wife takes ram-raid revenge on husband 's Merc
28 A CHARITY which takes deprived children on camping trips has been helped by a Middlesbrough hotel .
29 The opening chorus of No. 140 , for example , is a very dramatic affair yet this aspect of Bach 's art takes second place to refinement of articulation and gracefulness of phrase .
30 Tongues loosen and caution takes second place to bravado .
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