Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] takes " in BNC.

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1 The unit plugs into the parallel printer port of a PC and takes its supply from the computer .
2 When the male of the group dies , the biggest female in the harem quickly changes into a male and takes over the group .
3 Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill .
4 A man climbs into a machine and takes to the air and crosses the English Channel .
5 Greeny is generally pretty good , like a laugh and takes the piss a bit too .
6 Overall , the image gives a feel of the nature of diversification during development , since as a cell proceeds down a pathway and takes one of the branches , other pathways cease to be open to it .
7 In The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) , Lockwood plays a ruthless woman who enters the house of an old schoolfriend as a governess and takes up with the man of the house .
8 It allows a choice to be made of the tuples in a relation and takes a horizontal subset of an existing table .
9 Whether it 's petty cash , invoicing , or conference organising , 's your person ! has been at the maltings for just over a year and takes care of all those time consuming , but essential , administration services , appreciated by us all .
10 But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’
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