Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 2 | Thieves could evade an efficient system by taking stolen cattle to another district for sale . |
| 3 | In taking new-fangled ideas to such excess , of course , WPP was by no means alone . |
| 4 | Giving or taking repeated doses of any mood-altering drug , such as alcohol Or heroin , can result in the body becoming used to receiving that drug . |
| 5 | Externally she has to seek to diminish the threat by aggressive posturing and stamping and saying , ‘ We 'll get you , you bastards ’ , or taking real measures like these gates . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm withdrawing my plans and will not he taking legal proceedings after all . |
| 7 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 8 | So , too , could Motherwell if they continue to create what manager Tommy McLean described as ‘ pretty patterns ’ but lack the finishing touch which prevented them from taking full points from this entertaining encounter at Fir Park . |
| 9 | He then took various jobs including that of a clerk to an estate agent , a shop assistant in a department store and even as a tea taster for a firm of tea merchants . |
| 10 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |
| 11 | Then he took indecent photographs of some of them . |
| 12 | Prednisolone was studied at 10 - 5 M , which is within the plasma concentration ragne found in patients taking therapeutic doses of this drug . |
| 13 | Although the various social sciences take different interests in such matters and differ also on how such an understanding of them can be achieved , they do at least share this common source of data ; that is , what the members of society have produced , and are producing , in the way of artifacts , social groups , institutions , documents of various kinds , systems of conflict and co-operation , records , and so on . |
| 14 | Canadian animal rights groups take different views on this kind of activity . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not going to take sleazy questions like that . |
| 16 | Take 3in-long shoots of this season 's growth and trim to just below a leaf bud . |
| 17 | Three young actresses : Sally Longlands , Claire Newman and Elaine Wyatt , who delighted audiences with their antics in the society 's production of Daisy Pulls it Off , all take important roles in this production which is being directed by Andrew Day . |
| 18 | If the company had been solvent and considering a civil action against the Bank , it would not be allowed to take pretrial depositions from those who may have participated in the fraud . |
| 19 | Since the drinking supply is often the only cold water supply in the kitchen , you are , however , allowed to take other connections off this branch — for supplying an outside tap or for plumbing in a washing machine . |
| 20 | ‘ Whereas , it is necessary that steps be taken to ensure the continued conservation of the countryside in mountain areas in certain other less-favoured areas ; whereas the Member States have already taken or plan to take positive measures for this purpose and these efforts should be encouraged ; whereas farming performs a fundamental function in this respect . ’ |