Example sentences of "we take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that case , shall we take a brief walk up on deck ? |
| 2 | Do we take the intended words as choice points ? |
| 3 | ‘ We took a circuitous route . ’ |
| 4 | Consequently , we took a middle course . |
| 5 | We took a two-centre holiday , bidding yassou to Kos and yassou to Rhodes . |
| 6 | When he did show signs of depression I could usually shake him out of it , and we took a schoolboyish delight in finding ways to disconcert Ralph 's snooty man , Talbot , who brought morning coffee and afternoon tea up to the library , and evidently disapproved or both us and our enterprise . |
| 7 | We took a first-class carriage to ourselves . |
| 8 | We took a strategic decision to leave the commodity polyester business , ’ Coleman said . |
| 9 | The House will recall that we took a strong lead in the international effort to help the Kurds in Iraq . |
| 10 | And then we took a remote truck down to Carl 's house and did a few things in his den . |
| 11 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 13 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 14 | Although there 's a trail , walking up in the sunshine would be quite unpleasant , so we took a short ride on the incline railway to a more acceptable horizontal trail . |
| 15 | I think the message is there that er we took a dim view of it and we have now |
| 16 | So what we done , we took a big bag full of food did n't we , like , every week somebody brings home another tin of ham , a tin of corned beef , tin of beans , or a packet of biscuits and then er , at |
| 17 | Holden was missing for 18 minutes and Reid admitted : ‘ We took a calculated gamble by not replacing Rick — and it did not come off . ’ |
| 18 | In Bechar , we took a wrong turning and drove to the gates of an army barracks . |
| 19 | He presented the mali and myself with a hookah and while we took a preliminary suck , we were introduced to the other guests . |
| 20 | Now that the Government is giving tax relief on private health insurance we took a fresh look at all the schemes which qualify . |
| 21 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 22 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 23 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 24 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 25 | ‘ We took a large number and distributed them house to house in the various towns in which we operate . |
| 26 | In the morning we took a shared taxi back to Minya . |
| 27 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 28 | We took a first-aid box stuffed with Lomatils , plasters , anti-malarial tablets and insect repellents — all of which proved useless to ourselves , but helpful to our reputations as " white medicine-men " . |
| 29 | One Sunday afternoon we took a trancelike ride in the car out to Roxbury , and parked , and strolled the streets , and there she was , standing at her front door in a blue dressing-gown with her arms folded and with a look of amused reproach on her face . |
| 30 | At Kouvola where the railway line divides , we took the southern road which still follows the railway . |