Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never could sleep in the middle of the day , so as usual I took a sketch pad and sat sketching and making notes with my back against the wall of my house . |
| 2 | It was done in 1972 by Black , Jensen and Scholes , 2 who took a random sample of shares quoted on the NYSE and calculated the betas from 60 consecutive monthly returns . |
| 3 | Angie 's one is really like hot and will dry things whereas this one takes a bit longer . |
| 4 | Out of this one take a quarter each so how many quarters would they get ? |
| 5 | From this he took a photograph which he passed across to Mrs Wilson . |
| 6 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 7 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 8 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 9 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 10 | In 1962–63 he took a career-best 8 for 97 for NSW v Victoria at Sydney . |
| 11 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 12 | Around 1825 he took a post in Carlisle as manager of a small ironworks , and in 1832 he was appointed mill manager for Losh , Wilson , & Bell 's Walker Ironworks near Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 13 | At the Dublin summit of the EEC countries in December 1979 she took a highly belligerent , insular line . |
| 14 | At thirteen he took a car and wrote it off . |
| 15 | In 1893 she took a University of London B.Sc. ; she was awarded a D.Sc . |
| 16 | From these three I took a pair who seemed to get along , for my first release . |
| 17 | On page 35 we take a detailed look at ways of describing to the teacher how to ‘ drive the program ’ and how to use it in the classroom . |
| 18 | In 1969 they took a hard line . |
| 19 | In 1859 he took a leading part in the promotion of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company , becoming chairman in 1865 . |
| 20 | This is seen as an important means of getting away from the elitist concept and encouraging everyone to take a longer view , even if his or her immediate task involves short-term objectives . |
| 21 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 22 | Erm , and then we 'll sort of talk it through and make sure we 've got it right , and we 'll get it typed up for you , erm , and make sure you take a copy of it away with you . |
| 23 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 24 | This was so successful that in May 1873 they took a lease on the Small Hall at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , and opened 26 May 1873 . |
| 25 | Did you find that so many it took a long time for change to take place |
| 26 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 28 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 29 | What must seem stupid to non-gardeners , or those who take a rational view of the whole business , is that when you prepare the ground for sowing you first dig it over and make it loose , only to tread it firm again . |
| 30 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |