Example sentences of "[adv] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Stock Exchange chief executive , the ignominy of having cost the City several hundred million pounds was reason enough to take the long walk . |
| 2 | The bodkins , which were large enough to take the thin string for the buttons , were much too short to reach through the stuffing . |
| 3 | Mashair is progressing well and could be good enough to take the Listed O & K Troy Stakes . |
| 4 | The rear of the standing male is slotted vertically to take the folded iron blade ( now missing ) . |
| 5 | another winner yesterday was Gary Chapman of Chinnor … he roared home to take the chequered flag in the latest round of the formula one super karting championship at Little Rissington in Gloucestershire … |
| 6 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 7 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 8 | Robb , the brilliant 20-year-old from Liverpool bidding to be the youngest-ever to take the two-lap crown , was always off the pace in the 800 metres , won by Kenyan William Tanui . |
| 9 | My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug . |
| 10 | Telnitz is some way ahead of you ; we expect the forces there to take the initial impact of the assault . ’ |
| 11 | Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ? |
| 12 | As , like Pontius Pilate , the ancestors gladly wash their hands of the sordid business of administering justice , witchcraft readily steps forward to take the necessary action , acquiring in the process an even more clearly defined moralizing character . |
| 13 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 14 | TODD ELDREDGE , the 18-year-old former world junior champion , skated superbly to take the overall lead after the original programme at the Skate Electric UK International at Richmond Ice Rink last night . |