Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes a high-speed train one and a half miles to come to a stop from 125 miles an hour even if the driver brakes hard ! |
| 2 | This trend will be most prevalent among larger companies that find downsizing takes a long time due to the complexity of their computing environment . |
| 3 | This trend will be most prevelant among larger companies that find downsizing takes a long time due to the complexity of their computing environment . |
| 4 | One of the wealthy , a nameless businessman , takes a short cut one day through the valley where the low-lifers hang out . |
| 5 | It takes a little bit longer for me , but erm we show you then what 's on the sheet , so you know what is there . |
| 6 | Nerys Johnson Takes A Fresh Look Municipal Art Gallery , Middlesbrough , until May 16 . |
| 7 | It can take a good typist ten minutes to re-type an A4 page of text , and a poor one even longer . |
| 8 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 9 | At present , once an employee has reached the top band of his grade , performance points can take a Unified Grade 7 employee 's pay up to £34,667 . |
| 10 | but I bet one of those holes will take a whole wheelbarrow full of that |
| 11 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 12 | The Harold Hill pair used almost identical methods to lure the mirrors with Kenny ( right ) taking a 21 lb 6 oz specimen and Mark a 21 lb 4 oz fish . |
| 13 | Coaching is his big strength and that 's why he made such a phenomenal start , taking a bad side all the way to Wembley . |
| 14 | The entry for the following day , 13 May , began : " Organisation of VIKTRING cage our main responsibility , taking a whole Grenadier coy . |
| 15 | Both fell to peeler crab on a 1/0 hook to 15 lb line to give Roy a unique double — before Christmas he took a 4 lb 7 oz flounder from the Exe to set a new best for his club 's inner area record . |
| 16 | The fares war took a new twist last week when Jersey European , one of the most aggressive of the UK 's small regional airlines , announced the introduction of free rail tickets from Gatwick to Victoria station for passengers flying from Belfast City Airport . |
| 17 | The long-running saga took a new twist this week in Spain . |
| 18 | THE INDIE debate took a new turn last week , with the news that MUTE RECORDS may lead a boycott of the planned ‘ alternative ’ chart along with several other prominent independently distributed labels . |
| 19 | Local Dave Swallow took a 5 lb 4 oz chub on trotted bread flake . |
| 20 | Little Big Man was released in 1970 and took a healthy $15 million at the box office . |
| 21 | The affair took a sinister turn four months after the investigation began when a young American banker , due to appear in court on fraud charges connected with offshore banking transactions , died in mysterious circumstances . |
| 22 | ‘ He took a difficult decision last week to increase interest rates . |
| 23 | Even if a child took a whole bottle full of remedies it would not be harmed ! |
| 24 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 25 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 26 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 27 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 28 | He said the United Arab Emirates had revealed six members of the Memon family took a direct Pakistan International Airlines flight from Dubai to Karachi on 17 March , five days after the bombings . |
| 29 | So what we done , we took a big bag full of food did n't we , like , every week somebody brings home another tin of ham , a tin of corned beef , tin of beans , or a packet of biscuits and then er , at |
| 30 | Lymington DSFC member Kevin Barton took a 2 lb 14 oz plaice along with half a dozen flounder in one session . |