Example sentences of "take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 2 | Edna 's had to go home because Mum 's been took sick . ’ |
| 3 | And of course not long after that erm I was took ill and er I er had to have the doctor and they sent me to hospital . |
| 4 | I 've took illegal drugs and prescribed drugs . |
| 5 | On his return to the Works , the horseman was challenged by Mason , as to the reason the horses were tethered in this location , ‘ I was took short sir ’ he said ‘ Oh ’ , replied Mason : ‘ It looked as though you were thirsty ! ! — do n't let it happen again' . |
| 6 | Mum 's been took bad . |
| 7 | Inquiries must continue , however , to discover if Trevor Graham , a chartered surveyor , takes rural walks . |
| 8 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 9 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 10 | The council says it would welcome the chance to expand on the submission when the inquiry takes oral evidence . |
| 11 | This does not worry him , since he takes political Realism to be a limiting case whose usefulness has less to do with describing the actual conduct of foreign policy than with providing a way of explaining it . |
| 12 | The Profitboss takes broad and positive view about audit . |
| 13 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 14 | The Unit has 26 academic staff and takes full-time PhD students . |
| 15 | In the steepest , wettest areas , stock-rearing takes complete precedence , and little , if any , arable farming is undertaken . |
| 16 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 17 | To deal with this , a steady traffic of lorries takes solid waste from the plant to the nearby Drigg dump . |
| 18 | In light of this , anybody who takes strange tablets should observe certain basic precautions . |
| 19 | Objectification describes the inevitable process by which all expression , conscious or unconscious , social or individual , takes specific form . |
| 20 | It takes specific cultural processes and relationships to , as it were , spark off these latent tendencies . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 22 | Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand . |
| 23 | The direct way takes shattered cracks straight up the wall ahead , tending R to a good ledge on crest in 35m . |
| 24 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 25 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 26 | Flying off water takes different and rather greater skill than boring ground-bound aviation , and while sometimes it is slightly less practical , it is always immensely more rewarding — and much more fun . |
| 27 | Psychology takes different , sometimes incompatible , and often implicitly social subjects as its objects . |
| 28 | The movement takes different forms across the world but its common understanding is built upon a social model of health ( 6 ) . |
| 29 | It takes different people different styles who like to do different things to different meanings to be part of the rest . |
| 30 | Mark 's acceptance at Oxford proves it takes different strokes , different brush strokes that is , to move the world . |