Example sentences of "take [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 2 | The journey takes about eight-and-a-half hours . |
| 3 | • Pethidine — usually given as an injection , it takes about 10–20 minutes to provide relief from pain . |
| 4 | 4 Spoon into a freezer container and freeze until solid — this takes about 3–4 hours . |
| 5 | Also , operators at the surface can reel in the drill like a fishing line , and replace the bit in one tenth the time it takes with conventional systems . |
| 6 | • Kenny Gates and Mark Fitzwalters had a frantic battle with these mirror carp after getting takes within 30 seconds of each other from the same swim at Old Hall Lake in their home county of Essex . |
| 7 | Every conventional wet system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and the system pipework , as well as fresh oxygen , which aids further corrosion . |
| 8 | The system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and within the pipework . |
| 9 | But she admitted it was ‘ very feminine ’ and takes in four elements of the hard-working princess 's life and personality . |
| 10 | But — as he takes in two girls with long fair hair there is a North European element as well . |
| 11 | This week Doyle 's pedalling day takes in two shifts lasting from 2-5pm , followed by the real work from 8pm until four the next morning . |
| 12 | The stretch on American asphalt takes in two nights at LA 's Irvine Meadows and one date at New York City 's Madison Square Garden . |
| 13 | The dip takes in two reductions , a 1.41% for December and a smaller one , 0.74% , for January . |
| 14 | The world 's biggest motor rally takes in 160 cars … 1500 miles … four days … and 34 special stages … |
| 15 | This walk takes in seven waterfalls on the rivers Hepste , Mellte and Nedd Fechan in the Vale of Neath . |
| 16 | Rollercoaster USA takes in 23 cities from DeKalb to San Diego , mostly hallrooms and ballrooms , until the end of November , and it is , quite simply , the finest piece of rock theatre I have witnessed in 1992 . |
| 17 | It takes in off-market deals involving a professional intermediary as well as on-market transactions . |
| 18 | The aunts have brought more baggage than the passengers Rainbow takes to long-haul flights at Heathrow . |
| 19 | You know how long these things can take through normal channels … . |
| 20 | I could do with putting that pie in now cos it 's gon na take about forty minutes . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary has indicated that State-run prisons of this standard may take about 20–25 years to achieve . |
| 22 | To develop the skill of writing a polished , precise and mature essay can take between two years and a lifetime . |
| 23 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 24 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 25 | Retained from the Shatalin plan was the idea of a four-stage transition [ see p. 37722 ] , although Shatalin 's 500-day time frame was replaced with a vague prediction that implementation should take between 18 months and two years . |
| 26 | Well that means each company we can take for twelve hours because there are basically four business related classes . |
| 27 | We must now change gear somewhat , and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations . |
| 28 | You must take for twenty-one days religiously , stop for seven , always begin on the same day of the week , got it ? |
| 29 | Speaker , is there some sanction that the chair can take against honourable members of this house persistently raising bogus points of order . |
| 30 | It can take in mortgages , it can take in property , it can take in other values , so that R P I is a very much a , a negotiable figure . |