Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a great way for producing long banners or waste paper but And if you wan na actually reverse this process alt M takes it back the other way .
2 The other , on the face of it , gives less cause for revelling , since it takes us back a mere 70 years and is effectively an anniversary of an anniversary .
3 However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river .
4 Did it take you quite a long time to get to sleep ?
5 That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time .
6 As someone who has to ask occasionally for a care package for an individual , do I take it then the penultimate paragraph that this is the planning , you know , how you 're going to produce a care package for an individual , this is what you refer to in the planning system , and that you 're getting together with Social Services to get this care package together ?
7 ‘ If you come back with me you can help me take it out the other end . ’
8 It took me quite a long time to get over it .
9 It took me quite a long time .
10 Chairman , if they are recorded all later , it took me quite a long time to discover them , could we have , abbreviations just written out , it makes it very difficult for me to , I 'm not used , I mean , I 'm
11 Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother .
12 The fellow grinned and took them along a dark , smelly passageway into another chamber where the keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert , was squatting behind a great oak table like a king enthroned in his palace .
13 That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings .
14 I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher .
15 As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 .
16 To give Perdita a break , Luke took her away the following Saturday to see a high goal match at the famous Hurlingham Club which left her speechless with wonder , then on to Buenos Aires to an English production of The Merchant of Venice throughout most of which she slept .
17 It took her quite a long time to understand what had occurred and what she had done wrong .
18 Self-consciously they took the tureens from the kitchens into the dining room , placed them on the trolley , and took it round an empty table .
19 I took it out the other night ?
20 You took it out the other night , right ?
21 The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important .
22 The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important .
23 It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction .
24 One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London .
25 Many commonly-prescribed drugs increase the sensitivity of the skin and eyes to ultra-violet light — particularly if you take them over a long period of time .
26 Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’
27 To take you back a wee bit before that er when you were an apprentice was your tuition from your journeymen quite good ?
28 take him out every single day !
29 I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy .
30 First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement .
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