Example sentences of "he [vb -s] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 2 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 3 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 4 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 5 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 6 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 7 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 8 | But since the arrival of Robins , he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman . |
| 9 | An importer or wholesaler will not be able to rely on this defence if he has taken no steps to require his supplier to supply goods which correspond with the relevant legal requirements . |
| 10 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 11 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 12 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 13 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 14 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |
| 15 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 16 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 17 | For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break . |
| 18 | He wants to take the M&S formula one step further ‘ by offering the customer more flexibility ’ . |
| 19 | Not even his crew know when he wants to take the wheel . |
| 20 | The cop is saying through his bullhorn that he wants to take the baby . |
| 21 | Passionately anxious to serve Carlotta , he undertakes to take a message from her to Don Manuel , at a time when he and his followers are seriously threatened by the dictator . |
| 22 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 23 | The man is on a mission and he intends to take no prisoners . |
| 24 | ‘ But he does take an interest . ’ |
| 25 | he 's taken a bite and he 's fucking spurting water all over the |
| 26 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |
| 27 | He 's taken things off the floor and now he 's taken the floor up . |
| 28 | When I was in South Africa the attorney general of the Transvaal who has brought the charges made it abundantly clear that he was not er going to be influenced by er political issues , and I 'm not surprised that he 's taken the line that he does . |
| 29 | The response has been so good that he anticipates taking the show out again in the autumn . |