Example sentences of "and take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is contoured to give excellent line lay and takes 100 metres of 2½lb line . |
| 2 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 3 | The text maintains insistently that Jesus 's rightful heir was his brother James , and takes great pains to argue that Simon Peter never in fact ‘ defected ’ to Pauline thought . |
| 4 | I have one of those new fangled small cameras which does almost everything for you , and takes perfect photographs . |
| 5 | The Helsinki embassy charges a 100 Finnmark fee ( £12 ) and takes two days , but this is considered quick . |
| 6 | The 4-cylinder 16V DOHC 2259cc engine , mated to a four speed automatic gearbox , can push the 623GSi to a top speed of 134mph and takes 9.5 seconds to reach 60mph . |
| 7 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |
| 8 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 9 | An optional rechargeable battery is available for £40 , which should last for about 100 sheets , and takes 6 hours to charge using the standard power supply . |
| 10 | Trade did not prosper , however , and in 1860 he was forced to sell out and take humbler premises at 32 Little Queen Street , Lincoln 's Inn Fields , later to be the home of the Church Times . |
| 11 | She was the departmental secretary , and she would bring papers for him to sign and take other papers back with her . |
| 12 | Yes it will be launched , a bit late next Wednesday the ninth February at the section , not a big splash at all it 's just a photo call for the press to come in and take such pictures and what have you . |
| 13 | Thus one such asks for qualified applicants who are used to ‘ statutory duties ’ , and have the ability to ‘ act independently and take appropriate decisions ’ ( about what ? ) . |
| 14 | And even before the War , though Hewlett in correspondence with Harold Monro and Newbolt could give and take hard knocks by way of semi-technical criticism , yet it is enveloped and emasculated by similarly anxious camaraderie . |
| 15 | Have you ever started to speak and found yourself having to stop and take short breaths just to get through a sentence ? |
| 16 | Would you like to come and take some photographs ? ’ |
| 17 | The exercises involve exploring your thoughts , feelings , beliefs , desires , imagery and expanded states of awareness , looking at everyday events from a metaphysical perspective , and taking practical steps to change your life . |
| 18 | Two days a week — Mondays and Tuesdays — he went out with the van delivering orders to customers and taking new ones for both the printing and the art sides . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't single out any bad ones in particular — they all performed more or less the same — but a lot of people were taking an extra day , guaranteeing 48 hours and taking 72 hours . |
| 20 | He is also accused of indecent assault , indecency with a child , and taking indecent photographs . |
| 21 | Medlycott turns the ball the most while the dependable Neil Kendrick finished last season much more strongly , displacing Medlycott and taking 10 wickets at Old Trafford . |
| 22 | There he led a small group of men from the 22nd NZ Battalion to rescue an injured officer , in the process silencing five machine-guns and an anti-tank weapon and taking 130 prisoners . |
| 23 | What A View of the Present State of Ireland saves its worst condemnation for is those Old English who had ‘ degenerated ’ and gone native even to the point of abandoning their original names and taking Gaelic ones . |
| 24 | Yet Jake had negotiated it with skill and creativity , darting up side-roads to avoid the congestion and taking clever detours that saved both temper and time . |
| 25 | He was eating a mess of pottage and taking deep gulps of wine from a large ornamental cup . |
| 26 | These consist very largely of colleges of technology and technical colleges which offer only a minority of advanced courses and where most of their students are in the sixteen to nineteen age group and taking non-advanced courses . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 28 | Perhaps during social education discussions in schools , more emphasis could be put on the importance of considering the long-term supportiveness of a potential marriage partner , of thinking through one 's aspirations for work and children and taking positive steps to achieve one 's hopes rather than letting things ‘ just happen ’ . |
| 29 | And plenty of ways for them to check out too , the most popular with the punters being bad driving ( James Dean , Marc Bolan ) , firearms ( John Lennon , Marvin Gaye ) and taking more pills that it says on the bottle ( Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin ) . |
| 30 | Like the Finnish club who eliminated Giants from the Cup Winners Cup on Tuesday , Reykjavik followed the fundamental principles of playing aggressive defence , making simple passes and taking open shots . |