Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 2 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 3 | Unless she 's took three quarters of turkey back . |
| 4 | Nobody 's even took any notice of it . |
| 5 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 6 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 7 | This does not worry him , since he takes political Realism to be a limiting case whose usefulness has less to do with describing the actual conduct of foreign policy than with providing a way of explaining it . |
| 8 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 9 | The college takes 500 pupils from across the world and decided to call in debt collectors as a last resort . |
| 10 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 11 | Acceleration to 60mph takes 9.2 seconds for the turbo and 11.3 seconds for the non-turbo , which has a top speed of 111mph . |
| 12 | To deal with this , a steady traffic of lorries takes solid waste from the plant to the nearby Drigg dump . |
| 13 | It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved . |
| 14 | This stage takes little time after pauses , L1 originals , and the resource person 's voicings have been edited out . |
| 15 | Peter takes little comfort from the fact that the exploration is now centred in an area north of the Doolough Valley , so that any future mining is likely to leave his own watershed unaffected . |
| 16 | A stable , or resilient world , at another extreme , takes little notice of our presence . |
| 17 | While the Dutch government is actively planning to reduce the number of hospital beds , particularly those for long-stay patients , it takes little notice of the reality of mental health care in The Netherlands , cherishing various misconceptions regarding institutionalism and community care . |
| 18 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 19 | He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like . |
| 20 | Tom Watson 's interests are mainly technical , and he takes little interest in the retail side of the business . |
| 21 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 22 | However , this idealized picture takes little account of reality . |
| 23 | Man takes little account of such greater cycles . |
| 24 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |
| 25 | Too often , however , the current concern with curriculum takes little account of what individual pupils bring to the tasks they are required to perform , concentrating instead on the specification of structured and graded teaching steps that will help to ensure that all pupils progress in a predetermined sequence towards a predetermined goal . |
| 26 | Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them . |
| 27 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
| 28 | Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A junior conveyancer is equally obliged to his or her own client , and if it takes that member of the profession a little longer , or if they need to consult with senior colleagues before agreeing to a particular course of action , then so be it . |