Example sentences of "they take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon pay my wages and my commitment to them takes top priority . |
| 2 | Call the guard , let them take good care of him , he 's a desperate firebrand . ’ |
| 3 | I am not saying this is universal , of course , but I think the pressure from the City on industry to maximise profits tends to make them take short cuts . |
| 4 | Most of the other dancers in the company were straight from school , some of them taking leading parts while only about fifteen . |
| 5 | I did n't mind them taking any coal . |
| 6 | Villa had always been in command , but a combination of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping by David Seaman prevented them taking full advantage . |
| 7 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 8 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 9 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 10 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 11 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |
| 12 | And they takes lovely photos . |
| 13 | In sizeable towns the volume of trade offered wider scope for specialisation , but even there the connexion with agriculture remained intimate : in most the victualling and food-processing trades formed one of the principal groupings , as in Leicester or York ; only if there was a manufacturing speciality would they take second place . |
| 14 | Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions . |
| 15 | May they take realistic action as well as being open to and expectant for the provision of God . |
| 16 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 17 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 18 | They took great care and were concentrating on a small area , trying hard not to tread on the bones . |
| 19 | They took various steps at the beginning of the century to invigorate trade in the town , including the construction of a new town hall . |
| 20 | 7 minutes later , they took overall control . |
| 21 | In one hit-and-run case , one of the jurors had the effrontery to challenge the coroner 's authority , stating that he was a cyclist himself and that pedestrians were often at fault because they took insufficient care . |
| 22 | yeah but on the other hand Geoff if they took that attitude with everybody , nobody would |
| 23 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 24 | But what white kids did when they took that form of music was to quote white literature which is head stuff , and nothing to do with what 's under your balls . |
| 25 | When the Quins arrived at Sudbury at midday they took one look at the pitch and declined to play . |
| 26 | They took one look at the group of adamant women and ordered the publican to complete the round . |
| 27 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 28 | They took each other 's clothes off more slowly this time , and examined each other 's bodies in more detail . |
| 29 | When industrial interest groups failed to get help , they took political action against the military . |
| 30 | She lived in a big house in what they called the stockbroker belt , she had healthy and good-looking children , they took two holidays every year . |