Example sentences of "he take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 2 | Although he feels that the view from the dining-room of the new house will be relatively unimportant , he takes great pains to render it interesting , if not allegoric ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 3 | Yeah , but he said he 'd tell us he takes eleven tablets a day |
| 4 | He takes four pills today , two tomorrow , then he stops . |
| 5 | And I 'll just , just discuss briefly two of the cases that he uses and they 're , you know , they 're , they 're old now , I have n't read the most recent edition of his book , he might have updated his case studies but it does n't really matter he takes two cases er one relating to erm the conduct of the Korean war in the nineteen fifties , and the other relating to the desegregation of southern schools , also in the nineteen fifties , as examples of presidential power . |
| 6 | All the aermacchis are destroyed , so he takes some marines to make a reconnaissance across the island , his objective Goose Green . |
| 7 | Anthony should be higher cos he takes free kicks . |
| 8 | ‘ He takes those vows seriously . |
| 9 | He takes more kick-backs than … ’ |
| 10 | Check that he takes any medicines prescribed for him correctly . |
| 11 | He runs day classes and in the summer he takes residential students . |
| 12 | GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks . |
| 13 | A clue to his role may be found in the fact that only seven times did he take five wickets in an innings and never once ten in a match . |
| 14 | In making HIP allocations , will he take those matters into account as well as the efficiency with which those authorities use their stock and their willingness to co-operate with the private sector ? |
| 15 | Will he take urgent steps to ensure that the spread of city technology colleges is accelerated as quickly as possible ? |
| 16 | Then he took indecent photographs of some of them . |
| 17 | He took deep breaths , trying to calm his mind and soul so he could concentrate on the recent events in the Tower . |
| 18 | For the ‘ Panoramas ’ ( 1983–86 ) , he took multiple shots of a single motif , cut the prints into strips , then combined them to create intriguingly distorted images . |
| 19 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 20 | He took five minutes to type out the piece and comment on it . |
| 21 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 22 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 23 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 24 | In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42 . |
| 25 | He took five wickets for 18 in a full 15 over stint . |
| 26 | Dr John Hill of Chemistry , another frequent winner , took a first prize for his portrait of ‘ Karen ’ , a lady framed by a parasol , indeed he took five prizes altogether . |
| 27 | He took five pips from an orange and put them in an envelope . |
| 28 | He took small sips of drink but refused milk . |
| 29 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 30 | He took four strides to the corner , turned it and ran . |