Example sentences of "[v-ing] to take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 2 | Watching Smotty 's four-minute debut — missing an open goal whilst tying his bootlace , refusing to take a second-minute penalty until he had washed his shin pads in the puddle on the centre circle , then when he did take it hitting the corner flag — I could feel the supporters forcing my head further and further down on the block . |
| 3 | Pearce , wanting to take a quick throw-in , grabbed the ball and pushed him on the cinder track surrounding the pitch . |
| 4 | Students wanting to take the new course live out of college , serving in local areas , learning by doing — they work in housing estates or inner city areas under the direction of the tutor and they go to Spurgeon 's two days a week for lectures , seminars and tutorials . |
| 5 | They showed signs of wanting to take the whole operation over , but Coffin , backed up by his Inspector , would have none of it . |
| 6 | It overturned on attempting to take the sharp corner into Ruskin Road and fell on its side in front of a doctor 's house . |
| 7 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
| 8 | ‘ What sixteen-year-old is going to take a thirteen-year-old home to meet his oldies ? |
| 9 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 10 | I 'm going to take a deep breath everytime I see something and just hope you can make things work properly . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 12 | Sally-Anne could see that the good doctor , as she had naughtily begun to call him , was going to take a great deal of delight in mercilessly teasing her about Mr Sands . |
| 13 | ‘ This is going to take a long time , ’ said Tony . |
| 14 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 15 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 16 | That 's going to take a long time . |
| 17 | We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time . |
| 18 | He assured the court that Howard was going to take a well-needed holiday as soon as he could . |
| 19 | It was all going to take a good deal of sorting out . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just going to take a little time to put into operation . |
| 21 | The Stacker device driver is pretty big — 40Kb — and unless this can be loaded high , it 's going to take a big chunk of Conventional memory . |
| 22 | Ian Harwood , chief UK economist of Warburg Securities , said : ‘ I 'm not convinced that consumer confidence or business confidence is going to take a dramatic knock . |
| 23 | Her husband gave her a hug and hurried inside , saying he was going to take a quick bath , then he 'd be down for drinks . |
| 24 | We said if you want to abuse your bodies , we 're going to take every bloody pound you have in your pocket away with you , with the most modern medical treatment , bowels . |
| 25 | Most of it 's going to take the easy way short cut |
| 26 | It is proof enough that Tom Jones is not going to take the easy path that most of his generation would choose . |
| 27 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 28 | If you 're going to take the positive square root . |
| 29 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |
| 30 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |