Example sentences of "[pers pn] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tale is challenged in the notes for the Erato album ; but I take the above quotation from the memoirs of Tchaikovsky 's close friend Nikolay Kashkin , and it rings true enough . |
| 2 | In terms of closeness to York , I take the general review view and I support the County Council that it is generally better if the new settlement is located closer , close to York , because that under proviso that it is well located for public and private transport . |
| 3 | But before I take the first step out of here , I think I 'll feel pretty good about the knowledge and inquisitive spirit I 've been able to share and the doors I 've helped open . |
| 4 | But these days , if it looks as if it 's going to be nasty , I take the easy way out . |
| 5 | If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism . |
| 6 | I take the key worker with me so that they have somebody right from the beginning , somebody that they know . |
| 7 | For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views . |
| 8 | Well I , I take the implicit point that erm we 're all suffering cuts throughout the country , therefore why should n't higher education suffer similar cuts , but of course , higher education is in a different category to erm many other fields that the government pays for and sponsors , in that higher education is investment in the future , and therefore , if Britain is to survive erm as a , a nation of erm of some economic standing , is to well in the national , in the international stakes , then we must be innovative , we must create new things , and we must erm in , in that , to do that we must invest very strongly in higher education . |
| 9 | But I take the humanitarian line that this permits Mr Tim to engage in full imaginative sympathy with those tongues of Babel who throw themselves on his mercy . |
| 10 | . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops . |
| 11 | As with all my ablutions , the shave follows a definite and predetermined pattern ; I take the same number of strokes of the same length in the same sequence each morning . |
| 12 | I take the hon. Gentleman 's point . |
| 13 | I take the hon. Gentleman 's challenge . |
| 14 | I take the hon. Gentleman 's point . |
| 15 | Sometimes I take the brown Austin . |
| 16 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 17 | And as you have pointed out , when I take the lovely Miss Ingram as my bride , you and Adèle must leave the house , so I 'm looking for a new job for you . ’ |
| 18 | I take the true rule to be that where a specific article is offered for sale , without express warranty , or without circumstances from which the law will imply a warranty … and the buyer has full opportunity of inspecting and forming his own judgment , the rule caveat emptor applies . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I take the strongest objection to the suggestion that anyone other than the Daily Mirror themselves are to blame for the Crown Prosecution decision that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Lucy Marshall for drugs offences . ’ |
| 20 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that it is a subject in which I take the keenest interest . |
| 21 | That depends on how seriously I take the special letter on the life issues of abortion and euthanasia he wrote last May to his bishops . |
| 22 | " On condition that you take the Gristy girl in and give her a home . " |
| 23 | If you take the overnight train across the country beware of public holidays when they 're very crowded . |
| 24 | If you take the negative square root , there 's no way of getting back to these . |
| 25 | If you take the latter point of view but you will also put your client 's character . |
| 26 | That 's the right approach and I suggest to this Committee that if you take the Liberal Democrat Conservative resolution that will be not a bad . |
| 27 | You go in with two identical phones ; you take the existing ones out . ’ |
| 28 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 29 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 30 | After many years of National Trust-going , I have found that visits to historic properties are made much easier if you take the right equipment with you , and now I would n't dream of going anywhere without at least the following : |