Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the first few feet of Scylla is Puppet ( E1 5b , 5b ) before it takes a delicate traverse out right to climb an obvious groove . |
| 2 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 3 | The cost of bus fares for a family to visit their grandmother takes a disproportionate slice out of an income support ( formerly supplementary benefit ) Giro . |
| 4 | Over fences , Marshlander ( 2.35 ) takes a big step up in class after a hat-trick of recent victories . |
| 5 | ON SECOND THOUGHTS , PERHAPS YOU SHOULD WORK ALONE — TED 'S VODKA BILL TAKES A HEFTY CHUNK OUT OF OUR BUDGET |
| 6 | Though the tarmac takes a smooth U-turn on to the next straight , rider and machine will not describe such a graceful arc . |
| 7 | Here is one of those places , then , where the frontier does not follow the ridge of the mountains , but takes a sudden dive down on the French side . |
| 8 | Let him take a favourable tale back to his abbot when he leaves us tomorrow . |
| 9 | Dr Harvey McGillivray , head of the Observatory 's COSMOS unit told The Scotsman in 1990 that it could take a trained observer up to 20 minutes to scan an X-ray plate by eye , with no certainty of spotting abnormalities . |
| 10 | ‘ In that case , shall we take a brief walk up on deck ? |
| 11 | Easily Accessible : Bala lies beside a four-mile long lake ( which you can take a steam-train ride around ) and is surrounded by three mountain ranges . |
| 12 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 13 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 14 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 15 | Jones made this point by taking a small flashlight out from his pocket and making a strong cautionary comment that he would be ‘ extremely surprised if enough power could be generated by the process to power even a flashlight . ’ |
| 16 | After struggling into his hip length waders and taking a final look around , he moved towards the mud line . |
| 17 | He tucked the transfer document into his tunic , then hurried along the corridors , taking a crowded lift down to the living quarters in the heart of the great multi-stack fortress . |
| 18 | In 1991 they raised more than £3,000 for the national BBC appeal and , after taking a well-earned year off , organisers have set a target of £10,000 . |
| 19 | On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter . |
| 20 | " I know you 're used to taking a good look round when you silflay , but here we generally go straight out . " |
| 21 | They left Smithfield , taking a different route back into the city , past the ditch which smelt so rank and fetid that even Cranston , filled to his gills with wine , stopped to gag and cover his nose . |
| 22 | Taking a bizarre leaf out of the Grand Old Duke of York manual of management , Digital Equipment Corp has disbanded the engineering group it created only in February , giving rise to perceptions that the company is in a deeper crisis than observers had previously realised . |
| 23 | How can you justify taking a whole verse out of a song ? |
| 24 | Dick did not immediately hand the small cap back to Martin but , taking a clean handkerchief out of the top pocket of his short , thick coat , he wiped the rim of it , then handed it back , saying again , ‘ Thank you , sir . ’ |
| 25 | And then we took a remote truck down to Carl 's house and did a few things in his den . |
| 26 | When she approached the youth he took a hesitant step back but froze to the spot on seeing Graham 's threatening look . |
| 27 | I took a felt-tipped pen out of his jacket pocket and wrote a number on a beermat . |
| 28 | Maxim took a casual look around . |
| 29 | He took a cheap cigarette out of his jacket pocket , paused and lit it with a match in his cupped hand . |
| 30 | The big one looked sightly disappointed , then trotted back to their car and took a black shoulder-bag out of the boot . |