Example sentences of "take [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Club and pub doormen would have to carry registration cards and face a vetting procedure if the project takes off this year .
2 And then you can be erm actually the train journey to Enfield Chase takes about another half-an-hour , so that 's two hours at least and as well .
3 Given the enormous time , more than five minutes , it takes for each page this is very useful otherwise you might conclude that the whole machine has hung .
4 Whatever view one takes of this matter , the facts are indisputable .
5 This enlarged LFA , the areas included in which were determined in close consultation with farmers ' representatives , now takes in much land amenable for agricultural development and may increase the proportion of the UK uplands experiencing the nature conservation/agriculture conflict .
6 But this book takes in many forest areas too and I suppose there is n't room for everything .
7 The result of this is it takes in more water by osmosis than it gives out .
8 All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life .
9 I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind comments , and for the continuing interest that he takes in this subject .
10 The camera focuses on Lancaster 's eyes as he takes in this tableau of hyperactive sleaze .
11 He said completion would take about another week .
12 can take off that weekend .
13 We must now change gear somewhat , and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations .
14 It remains to be seen exactly what pricing measures Intel will take with either Pentium , because of its continued delivery problems , or the 80486 , because of the recent court ruling letting Advanced Micro Devices ship its 486 clones — see opposite .
15 It remains to be seen exactly what pricing measures Intel will take with either Pentium , because of its continued delivery problems , or the 80486 , because of the court ruling freeing Advanced Micro Devices to ship its 80486 clones .
16 Er and put us out of our er how many ballistic shields did you take into that flat ?
17 How , how long do you think it 'll take for give up how long will it take before that person feels uncomfortable and has to respond ?
18 It can take in all sorts of people .
19 The first audits will take place this autumn as part of a rolling programme which will eventually take in all centres .
20 Often this sort of breathing is accompanied by raising the shoulders and pushing forward the front part of the chest ; it does not take in much air or provide the opportunity to have much control over it .
21 Before the adventurers can really take in this chamber , a skeletal figure clad in a tatty , filth-encrusted black robe standing not far from the door eagerly holds out its hands to them , one of which holds a hot branding iron .
22 That is not a matter that I can take into consideration other than to say that I am satisfied that the proper figure for a multiplier for working life , er which I shall take in this case , is the multiplier of sixteen contended for by Mr .
23 The work will take in several stretches along the length of the road which links Blands Corner just outside Darlington with the A66 from Teesside .
24 For a start , both dogs will eat less of the food itself and , as a result , will take in less vitamins and minerals .
25 It is obviously devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery , but Dorothy Einon points out that children learn how to give and take from such experiences .
26 But the princesses will be my sisters-in-law — and I can feel it in my bones that we shall just not take to each other at all !
27 The attitude that the United Kingdom Government will take to that directive will depend upon its final form .
28 He was n't sure how they 'd take to this rethink of Swan Lake .
29 The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency .
30 responsibility to provide the er the capital funding for those buildings and I think that 's a view I would certainly take at this time er with regard to the other health authorities in but it 's erm it 's er primarily a health r health erm authority responsibility .
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