Example sentences of "he take the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 2 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 3 | He took the two boys off to a Lyons Corner House in peckham Rye , invited them to Bedford Gardens to meet Colquhoun and MacBryde , showed them his paintings , played Marlene Dietrich and Billie Holiday records and in one remarkable evening left them firmly hooked on the Bohemian life , determined also to become artists . |
| 4 | And with dignity he took the two glasses over to the bar . |
| 5 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 6 | At the end of the concert he took the four children back to Great Meadow . |
| 7 | This time he did n't open the door for her , and she had difficulty keeping up as he took the front stairs two at a time . |
| 8 | He took the tiny bones of the stillborn girl from where they had been buried in the ice . |
| 9 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 10 | He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class . |
| 11 | He took the precious papers from his pocket and the American snatched them out of his hand . |
| 12 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
| 13 | He was educated at Quaker institutions : Sidcot School and Woodbrooke College , Birmingham , where he took the social studies course . |
| 14 | Altogether he won fifteen caps for England , and , in the 1938 series against Australia , he took the most wickets , 17 at a cost of 34.17 each . |
| 15 | Strike a chord Until two weeks ago , Mr Lamont was a trusted ally of the Prime Minister , always present when he took the big decisions . |
| 16 | Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession . |
| 17 | He took the ten radials , previously selected , and projected a system of ‘ express arterial roads ’ , including a new outer ring ( the D ring ) , placed on the inner edge of the green belt . |
| 18 | He took the natural sciences tripos in 1877 with first-class honours , and was appointed an assistant demonstrator . |