Example sentences of "a [noun sg] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the conquest of the 400ers brought a new age , with fresh eyes hungrily seeking steeper rock and ice that demanded a willingness to take a quantum leap in technical difficulty to achieve a first . |
| 2 | Student James , 17 , gave the family holiday in Spain a miss to take a summer job near home in Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire . |
| 3 | They would take a lazy bottom turn , stall as they climbed up the wave , then disappear behind the curtain for a second or two , reappearing like actors at the end of a play to take a bow . |
| 4 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 5 | When you are a newcomer to a group take a friend you know well along with you . |
| 6 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 7 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 8 | A neophyte taking a skiing holiday used to spend the first week in excruciating , character-forming exercises . |
| 9 | Young Danny , the big boss now weekend said er take a disc take a disc and I said yeah well it 's knackered er erm . |
| 10 | A PUNCH-up right under the eyes of the law went unpunished as a town took a trip back in time . |
| 11 | Got a florist took a claim out January of eighty-nine , reasonably low premiums , fourteen pound , thirty-two a month . |
| 12 | If a team took a kick 8 yards forward of the foul theyd be pulled back . |
| 13 | A reluctance to take a stand about racism , in fact indifference to it , has been shown again and again by head teachers . |
| 14 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 15 | To take an example , a person taking a lien on subfreights is not affected by the register since this is not a registrable charge but a person taking a floating charge would be . |
| 16 | He 's a technician taking a look at some technical stuff . |
| 17 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 18 | There is a number of ‘ sitting ’ schemes run by social services departments or others which may help a carer to take a break . |
| 19 | Since machinery now exists that permits a term certain to be contracted out of the 1954 Act 's security of tenure , it is unwise except in special circumstances , for a landlord to take a risk of granting a tenancy at will . |
| 20 | The ETR-254 rotary excavator , which can shift 1200 cubic metres an hour and dig a trench to take a pipe 1420 mm in diameter even in frozen ground , is one example . |
| 21 | ‘ It is time for the party as a whole to take a step back and look at the way in which its democracy is being carried out , ’ he told the conference . |
| 22 | The Faculty of Arts offers the following degrees : MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) , in both of which a student takes a spread of subjects with some studied to an advanced level ; and the MA(Honours) , in which a student concentrates on one or two subjects in depth for most of the period of study . |
| 23 | Such a definition takes a word with a certain valuational meaning , and rather vague descriptive meaning , and broadens , narrows or shifts the descriptive meaning so that the emotions expressed by the valuational meaning are directed at more or less substantially different targets . |
| 24 | ‘ But it is n't fair that two drivers can race hard for almost three hours , and then be disqualified because a mechanic took a microsecond too long to close a valve . ’ |
| 25 | The KGB 's next victim wo n't be left dead with a poisoned pellet in him , like a wood pigeon that a kid takes a pot shot at with his air gun . |
| 26 | A MAN taking a morning dive near a tourist town north of Sydney was killed today in Australia 's second fatal shark attack in five days . |
| 27 | A man takes a friend to meet a woman he knows . |
| 28 | In your society , when something like that occurs , does n't a man take a mistress , or even more than one ? |
| 29 | ‘ When Slaughter told me what had transpired , I had the lass brought here to my lodgings , and had a physician take a look at her . ’ |
| 30 | A tunnel taking a footpath through a hillside close to the village church was actually built in 1835 for Stephenson 's ( q.v. ) horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway . |