Example sentences of "take [pron] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While each twist of that film served to subvert a teenage cliche , his latest starring vehicle takes its angst a good deal more seriously . |
| 2 | ‘ Why do you not let me take my participation a stage further ? ’ |
| 3 | Did you take my pound the other day ? |
| 4 | Can I take your pen a minute ? |
| 5 | It works best on long , straight hair but if it 's very thick it 'll probably take your hairdresser an afternoon to do the winding . |
| 6 | Did I take your pound the other day ? |
| 7 | She took her lunch an hour late . |
| 8 | But back in the mid-Eighties he seemed to be taking his role a little too seriously . |
| 9 | Taking his lantern the watchman followed and although there was no other entrance but from the porter 's room , he could find no trace of his antagonists . |
| 10 | The sergeant was silent for a moment ; then unconsciously taking his tactlessness a step further , he said , ‘ I always say it 's a bloody shame , you with a voice like you 've got . |
| 11 | Once , Woolley took his flight a little further over the Front than usual , just to provoke the gunners . |
| 12 | Jack first hit the headlines last July when he took his boat the Helga Maria to the Arctic Circle even though the Department of Transport had not declared the vessel seaworthy . |
| 13 | This stage , then , took our research a step further in that it penetrated the submerged section of the ‘ iceberg ’ and offered some insight into this large and hidden sector of users . |
| 14 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 15 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 16 | Very soon after I had taken my seat a fairly small number of musicians on the stage , of chamber orchestra size , began their rehearsal . |
| 17 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 18 | Had we taken their advice the nurses would never have received what has proved for them their biggest breakthrough since the war . |
| 19 | I have to admit that , in the early days , it was with mixed feelings that I intervened — suggesting , for example , that life preparation students really ought to take their turn the same as anyone else . |
| 20 | Some moths take their defence a stage further by releasing a pyrozine froth from their abdomen to deter attackers . |
| 21 | ‘ He left this for the little Romany Rei I reckon you be he so take it bor an plant no gorja curses on his grave . ’ ’ |
| 22 | As he rose to take his leave the Magistrate thought again of the stupidity of the zemindars who had refused to reinforce the embankments ; near him , in the lumber of possessions , was an oil painting of a stag at bay : that was just how he felt himself . |
| 23 | Peter was able to take his test a year earlier than most because the law allows disabled people to pass their test at 16 . |
| 24 | I take his advice a lot . |
| 25 | I take his advice a lot . |
| 26 | Advance and take your prize The diamond ; but he answer 'd , ‘ Diamond me No diamonds ! |
| 27 | They 're waiting to take your callsat the Scotland Today Action line on oh four one or oh three one , two two six , four seven four seven . |