Example sentences of "takes [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes off the SLEEPER 's crown , kisses it . |
| 2 | Still , their local knowledge is invaluable : the club selection , for example , and the line one takes off the distance church steeple on holes coming home . |
| 3 | ( c ) The surveyor takes off the quantities from the drawing or , less satisfactorily , extracts the relevant figures from the bill of quantities in order to calculate the total value of the sub-contract work . |
| 4 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's got to be a magician who takes off the spell . |
| 6 | McDermott takes off the top of a zombie 's head with a shovel — done with a trick shovel by reversing the action , then using a dummy in long shot . |
| 7 | The GHI taste panel takes off the wrapping and tucks in |
| 8 | It usually takes about a fortnight here |
| 9 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 10 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 11 | The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love |
| 12 | Cos he was , he takes for a pee anyway |
| 13 | This is the amount of food that it takes for a fish to stay the same weight , i.e. just survive . |
| 14 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 15 | Complain about the time it takes for the Beano to reach me . |
| 16 | Whatever the answer , do not fall into the trap of imagining that the impact of a flood in one of this year 's drought-ridden rivers will pass as quickly as the time it takes for the river to ‘ look ’ normal again . |
| 17 | However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor . |
| 18 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 19 | Her mother and cold-hearted step-father tax her wage packet , the job is drudgery — and finally there 's the man … whom Iris , with her mind full of trashy romances , mistakenly takes for the fairy prince she 's awaited so long . |
| 20 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 21 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 22 | Stopping distance — that is , the time it takes for the brain to register the need to stop and the time it takes for the brake to take effect — is at 70 miles an hour a frightening 315 feet . |
| 23 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 24 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 25 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 26 | One of the extraordinary features of British economic management over the past fifty years has been the inability of those in charge to comprehend the workings of ‘ lags ’ : the time it takes for the effect of a change in policy to work through the economy . |
| 27 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well your home is insulated and draught proofed . |
| 28 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well insulated and draughtproofed your home is . |
| 29 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 30 | Stopping distance — that is , the time it takes for the brain to register the need to stop and the time it takes for the brake to take effect — is at 70 miles an hour a frightening 315 feet . |