Example sentences of "and take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 2 | Mitch goes with you and takes the necessary shots , ’ he added firmly , glancing at Mitch . |
| 3 | Most feminists respond by multiplying the female subject , and taking the collective category of ‘ women ’ as a pragmatic basis for their politics . |
| 4 | The genuine regard or respect is demonstrated in building trust , being reliable , and taking the other person 's point of view seriously , whatever one 's personal opinion . |
| 5 | His sister then helped to bring up the child while Gustav was in Moscow for two years , at the university and taking the political indoctri-nation . |
| 6 | Everyone was clamouring , as they ate and drank and the girls went round the table , serving and taking the finished platters to the sink where Sabina was busy wiping and stacking . |
| 7 | When the interview ended , and Jean-Claude Meursault had risen , shaken her hand gravely , and then quickly joined the group around the camera at the end of the track to Miranda 's right , she began sketching in her small pad and taking the occasional photograph when the noise levels permitted . |
| 8 | Experience has shown that many real situations are lacking in mechanisms for monitoring what is going on , and taking the necessary control action when the required standards are n't being met . |
| 9 | Reverting to the construction of sand features and taking the small scale features first it may be said that the formation of sand ripples is closely connected with the process of saltation . |
| 10 | But it 's not at all a bad idea to have a quick guided tour on your first day to get an idea of the layout , saving a lot of time asking the way and taking the wrong turning . |
| 11 | Stressing China 's hard-won independence and unity , Jiang said : " The past 70 years prove that only by following the leadership of the CCP and taking the socialist road can our country become powerful and prosperous , our nation be rejuvenated and our people enjoy a prosperous life . " |
| 12 | Driving from Louvois to Bouzy , and taking the left turn into the village itself , one can not miss the corner section of vines proudly signposted as ‘ Bollinger 's Vieilles Vignes ’ . |
| 13 | My immediate neighbours were miners ; and in my walks on the hills , eating up time and taking the free air , I had often met groups of miners going along the old Roman road that ran along the spine of the hill above my home . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , there it is , ’ Signe said , coming back into the room and taking the cold coffee from me . |
| 15 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 16 | But it 's been an amazing week reaching the final and taking the British record . ’ |
| 17 | Now Buxtehude is something of a Mecca for other traffic planners paying tribute to what has been achieved and taking the Verkehrsberuhigung message back to their own communities . |
| 18 | I remember how he flew unhesitatingly to Peru to protest openly against the bombing of human rights organisations there — and took the personal decision that it would be , in his carefully chosen words , ‘ inappropriate ’ for him to use the special security protection he was provided with . |
| 19 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 20 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 21 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 22 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 23 | The Sergeant came up from the rear to join Charles as they left the Carriageway and took the long asphalt path that leads diagonally away to Marble Arch . |
| 24 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 25 | She developed an interest in Welsh literature , and took the bardic name of Merch Myrddin as a reminder of her birthplace . |
| 26 | The ‘ friend ’ then made contact and took the new recruit along to join in her activity . |
| 27 | She did as he said , and took the spare seat without waiting to be asked . |
| 28 | So I bus-hopped into the City and took the Central Line as far as Bond Street . |
| 29 | Vologsky 's inner robot acknowledged that the missile detection apparatus was functioning , and took the appropriate action . |
| 30 | Robinson soon went , but Gooch and Gower batted well and took the overnight score to 110 for 1 ; only another 119 to avoid the follow-on and clearly England 's best day of the series so far . |