Example sentences of "be take [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is a good set-up and I am looking forward to the challenge , ’ said O'Brien , who will be taking his first managerial role at non-league level after many years in coaching jobs with Marine , South Liverpool , Northwich Victoria and Warrington .
2 In one project , scientists at Wurtsmith Air force Base in Michigan are taking their first close look at an organism that was found happily growing in the processing tower of a mechanical device for cleaning trichloroethylene out of contaminated ground water .
3 This is when the labyrinth is developing and the young babies , which are about 1cm long by this time , are taking their first of air .
4 HOLLYWOOD beauty Michelle Pfeiffer is taking her first holiday in TEN years .
5 LEARNER-driver Jackie Richards , 39 , of Gloucester , is taking her first lesson — a 900-mile trip from John O'Groats to Land 's End for charity .
6 EMBOLDENED by the election result , that near-extinct breed , the yuppie , is taking its first tentative steps abroad for some time .
7 SDLP chairman Mark Durkan , tipped to eventually succeed party leader John Hume as Foyle MP , is to take his first steps in elective politics , it was learned today .
8 She hopped all the way home , arms wide and waving as if she was taking her first lesson in tightrope walking .
9 Across the globe in that year , 1962 , 21-year old Richard Neville was taking his first step into journalism , editing the University of New South Wales student paper , Tharunka .
10 His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show .
11 Such was the disturbed world in which the young impressionable Nasser was to take his first steps in politics in the 1930s .
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