Example sentences of "and [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge . |
| 2 | Halfling refugees poured down the river Aver in a convoy of boats , barges , and improvised rafts , and eventually took refuge in Nuln . |
| 3 | In the presidential elections held on Feb. 2 , 1986 [ see p. 34350 ] , Oscar Arias Sánchez of the social democratic National Liberation Party ( Partido de Liberación Nacional — PLN ) won 52.3 per cent of the vote and duly took office on May 8 . |
| 4 | A ten-minute video , called Fur : The Bloody Choice , featuring grotesque and secretly taken footage , is designed to shock people into action . |
| 5 | Social workers operate in teams , take measured approaches to problems , and rarely take decisions on their own . |
| 6 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |
| 7 | Open our eyes to see Your glory , open our hearts to receive Your love , open our minds to discern Your purposes , quicken our feet to go for You , loosen our tongues to speak for You , open our hands to give for You , and so take care of us Your people who embrace the cross of Your son and desire to move forward in faith in the power of Your Spirit and to the glory of Your name ; |
| 8 | Her new owner was prepared for some difficulty , and so took Anna to a good professional horsebreaker ; but to no avail . |
| 9 | Robyn arrived at Luke 's later than she had expected — far later — flustered and hot from busy traffic and wrongly taken turns , tense as the prospect of seeing Luke again became reality . |
| 10 | In addition to this , he thought it might be possible to work with a sympathetic artist in a good studio , and perhaps take lessons at an academy . |
| 11 | ‘ And perhaps took poison there , ’ said Auguste eagerly . |
| 12 | It 's not a thrilling task but is easy and only takes minutes . |
| 13 | He still drank , began to smoke , and only took notice of his wife and child to shout at them or hit them , usually when he was drunk . |
| 14 | In the same year the British abandoned Palestine , never a welcome responsibility and lately become ungovernable , and henceforth took care of their Middle Eastern interests through a group of client states and the fortress colony of Aden . |
| 15 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 16 | Before people could generally read , learning was by word of mouth and much took place in the countryside along the paths , particular truths being imparted at certain places , which thereby took on special significance . |
| 17 | However , this comment conflicts with statements made back in September , when the company said it was saddened by users employing the handsets solely as cordless phones and not taking advantage of the Rabbit network . |
| 18 | As he turned to return down the steps he was thinking of Carrie once more and not taking care where he was stepping . |
| 19 | But if it is the case , simply and conclusively , that music ‘ must intervene actively in consciousness through its own forms and not take instructions from … the consciousness of the user ’ ( quoted in Held 1980 : 83 ) , the baby has gone as well as the bath water and utopian critique begins to look suspiciously like spiritual determinism , autonomy like repression . |
| 20 | It still behoved the middle class trader to play fair with his customers and not take advantage of good-natured country parsons and ignorant members of the labouring classes . |
| 21 | For example , if an irrigation scheme increases farm production we should only include the costs of the water itself and not take account of any value that arises from increased farm output in terms of costs alone . |
| 22 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 23 | In the mid-1980s the Saudi-supported concern Norbec took to chartering ULCCs and VLCCs in order to hold stocks of crude oil afloat and thus take advantage of any favourable movement in prices after cargoes were loaded . |
| 24 | When the loans are redeposited in banks , they form the base for yet more loans , and thus takes place a process of multiple credit expansion . |
| 25 | To ju and just take taxation bit of it . |
| 26 | And I 'd like to , aye , and I just write it down in a if it 's on a tape you can put that pause on and just take line by line , you know . |
| 27 | so he i he , he just put them put the washer in and , and just take care of it . |
| 28 | And just take note of that . |
| 29 | Or yes that 's one thing because he does n't like it anymore or he might have had a a problem with selling it to someone or something and just to take revenge or something he says |
| 30 | There 's not the point going out there and fucking taking God knows how many pictures |