Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [pers pn] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 2 | The last lay off ( remember after being selected for England ) shook him up a bit and he took time to get his confidence back , but again towards the end of the season was getting back to his best . |
| 3 | That 's what , oh no we were on a boat and we took that , but it was a similar boat to what we went on . |
| 4 | twenty five minutes in a car and it takes you about an , an hour on the bus . |
| 5 | Both had ended in the humiliation of that brawl at a dance and me taking a swing at a hapless policeman . |
| 6 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 7 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 8 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 9 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |
| 10 | A friend and I take a stall at an indoor market once a week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She does work seventeen to nineteen hours here a week and she takes her work home . |
| 13 | The programme was a shambles and I took her out to dinner to cheer her up . |
| 14 | He wonders why I 'm not caddying for Arnold Palmer , so I tell him there 's been a mix-up and he takes me on . |
| 15 | He had brought a camera and he took photos of everything possible ; the seats , the food , ourselves . |
| 16 | ‘ I found them in a book and I took them . |
| 17 | There is still a bus and it takes us to that hotel on the port . |
| 18 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |
| 19 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 20 | Her child had a nightmare and she took him into her bed to comfort him . |
| 21 | and she had a tick and we took her to the vet |
| 22 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 23 | They took the car to a garage and they took Karen 's body to a hospital . |
| 24 | In the old days people used to put ashes on top , but I prefer to use a utensil and I take it out on to the pasture . |
| 25 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 26 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 27 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 28 | There was an opportunity and I took it . ’ |
| 29 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 30 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |