Example sentences of "he takes a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes a kindly interest in David , whose father he had buried , as he recalls when he takes the boy to his shop to be measured for mourning for his mother 's funeral . |
| 2 | He takes a long draw on the J , while I sit there thinking , Oh shit , then he hands the number back to me again with a big grin on his face . |
| 3 | He takes a broad view of this symphony and shapes it superbly according to his own very distinctive view of it . |
| 4 | For example , you could offer to look after the children for the weekend while he takes a well-earned break . |
| 5 | Fumaroli 's book is a polemic and he takes a savage pleasure in destructive rather than constructive criticism of Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture . |
| 6 | So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it 's haunted . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman will know , for he takes a close interest in this matter , that from next year , there is an extra £2.7 billion for the health service in its next budget , in a few day 's time — up another 5 per cent. , including efficiency gains . |
| 8 | The cold wind ruffles his hair and makes him flinch for a moment , but it is refreshing after the stale warmth of the house , and he takes a deep breath or two on his way to the garage . |
| 9 | He takes a threatening step towards me . |
| 10 | So another over full of effort from David Lawrence , he takes a massive breath and then heaves himself off some distant corner of the field . |
| 11 | He takes a quick kick dead straight towards goal … which shearer runs onto and scores . |
| 12 | And he takes a particular interest in his garden . |
| 13 | Last April he outpointed the fancied George Collins , and he takes a dim view of last week 's easy win by Laing over Collins at Reading . |
| 14 | To make this precise , he takes a well-defined notion of instrumental rationality ( Zweckrationalität ) from economics , as specified for an ideal-type case where the agent is fully rational and the rational choice fully calculable . |