Example sentences of "he take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 2 | This mobilization , it was claimed , served to warn Gorbachev of disaffection in the top ranks of the Red Army over his reforms , and to make him take greater account of military opinion in formulating policy . |
| 3 | If I can make him take another step he will come alongside Ludo . |
| 4 | Darren Huddleson from Ireland may be wheelchair-bound , but that did n't stop him taking four rides on the newly-opened Splash mountain , a fast log-flume ride with an almost vertical drop . |
| 5 | Whereas , taking him taking one guy a week for a week , is putting no-one in jeopardy and giving somebody a decent wage for a week . |
| 6 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 7 | Did you see him taking those shots every time . |
| 8 | Also , I ca n't imagine him taking any woman out into deep woods for sex . |
| 9 | Agassi is , like Becker one of those players who plays straight from the heart , and unless he sorts out what stops him taking winning opportunities — on an emotional as well as technical level — he may never fulfil his incredible potential . |
| 10 | Those who identify him take some pleasure in the thought that this sturdy independent was also the pensioner of the Empress Catherine the Great . |
| 11 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 12 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 14 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |
| 15 | The psychiatrist has told him to take three pints of lager . |
| 16 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 17 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 18 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
| 19 | According to Eadmer , it was a small incident which opened Anselm 's eyes to the true state of affairs , and made him realize that the king would in no circumstances allow him to take any action beyond the routine of his episcopal duties . |
| 20 | They tell him to take another wife . |
| 21 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 22 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 23 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 24 | Though at first , Pip could not bear to touch him , later on he takes great care of him and grows to love him which is shown by their holding hands at the trial of Magwitch and his visits to him as he is awaiting execution . |
| 25 | He takes great trouble over a seemingly endless stream of difficulties . |
| 26 | Although he feels that the view from the dining-room of the new house will be relatively unimportant , he takes great pains to render it interesting , if not allegoric ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 27 | I think he 's got a good idea here but if he takes that slant to his story you could do rather well . |
| 28 | Finally he delivers him off to be crucified , and he takes that bowl of water and washes his hands thinking he 's absolved from guilt , but you do n't get rid of Jesus that easily . |
| 29 | Mr Peter Sutherland will end a 20-year teaching career when he takes early retirement from Tilery Primary School in the summer , at the same time as Mr James Burton retires from Bishopsgarth School after ten years in the profession . |
| 30 | Yeah , but he said he 'd tell us he takes eleven tablets a day |