Example sentences of "take [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 2 | It takes about the same time to do a simple drawing on a 2D machine as on a drawing board . |
| 3 | And the salad stuff and fresh fruit and all that sort of thing , takes about the full length of our bar up you know , you , you could n't think of a salad that is n't there . |
| 4 | Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two |
| 5 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 6 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 7 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 8 | Then , years later — and she takes after the tall side of the family — she said , ‘ Now I am creature great , and you are creature small . ’ |
| 9 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 10 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities . |
| 11 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 12 | In the USA most bureau charge by the amount of time that the document takes with a fixed cost for bromide or film — usually by the foot . |
| 13 | As it makes its way along , the carp also takes in a certain amount of plant matter . |
| 14 | It is in the life and fragrance of that person , Jesus of Nazareth , that we have a pattern of care and love for all things which can be the basis for a discipleship that takes in a holistic approach to life . |
| 15 | This is because increasing the proportion of left handers in the overall population by shifting the criterion to the right takes in a larger segment of the RS — distribution , but this segment constitutes a changing proportion of the number of individuals to the left of this criterion ( i.e. the left handers ) . |
| 16 | Tomorrow he takes in a further round of 125cc British championship at Donington Park and after his ninth spot in the Supercup at a wet Oulton last weekend he 'll be one of the leading contenders . |
| 17 | As a final point it is worth reiterating that , although it takes a lot of time and intellectual effort to derive an acceptable information model using the MINSE approach , the model is independent of the actual form that the information takes in the real situation , and will remain valid until such time as the role of the organisation undergoes a fundamental change . |
| 18 | Lavishly illustrated , it takes in the full history of Sally B , the Great Warbirds Air Display and the personalities that have kept the UK 's largest privately-operated warbird going . |
| 19 | A circular walk based on Drewsteignton takes in the dramatic gorge and passes close to one of the most notable curiosities of the area — Castle Drogo . |
| 20 | On the south side of the River Mersey the extension takes in the commercial heart of Birkenhead with a mixed housing/industrial dock hinterland and also housing and leisure areas in New Brighton . |
| 21 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 22 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 23 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 24 | This walk not only takes in the lovely moorland around the Doone Valley it also runs along the shady woodland paths on the banks of the East Lyn river . |
| 25 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 26 | A camera with a wide-angle lens is fixed high up on the wall at a point where it takes in the widest angle of the room . |
| 27 | The pupil also takes to the prospective employer or the university admissions tutor the raw scores of exam results . |
| 28 | Jane Fowler appreciates her own failings as she takes to the open road with an advanced driving instructor |
| 29 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 30 | You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ? |