Example sentences of "[noun] and take " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled hard on the wheel and took the left fork . |
| 2 | Stuart would borrow his father 's big Buick and take four or five of us to matches . |
| 3 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 4 | how we would accommodate much more with a very tight greenbelt on the erm the sites that we 've actually allocated on our side of Ryedale and take account of greenbelt so . |
| 5 | The Trust is not an anglers ' or owners ' association and takes no side in the arguments between the supporters or sporting and commercial fishing , but it does believe that salmon should be taken only in their rivers of origin or their estuaries so that the total level of fishing effort can be controlled in order to ensure that enough fish reach the spawning sites to maintain stocks naturally . |
| 6 | He felt something like battle-fatigue — a great desire to lie down on the ground with his hands over his ears and take no further part in the war . |
| 7 | More exercises and more repetitions are not the answer to correcting poor arm development — it is better to do fewer exercises and repetitions and to take more rest . |
| 8 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 9 | Edward then catalogued the stock and took charge of the paperwork while Phil touted for business , fetched and carried . |
| 10 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 11 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 12 | That looks nice erm , all we have to do now is go and erm get a card and take the price , oh the prices must be on these |
| 13 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 14 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 15 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
| 16 | Opo would ease between her legs and take her for rides . |
| 17 | ‘ The basic idea is that you jump towards them , scoop up their legs and take them down hard , ’ she explained . |
| 18 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 19 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 20 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 21 | We buy two pints of Taylor Walker and take them out on to the rear balcony . |
| 22 | By the time he left his bedroom and took the path across the field she was out of sight . |
| 23 | She had tried to imagine Tommy Allen coming into the bedroom and taking Fred 's place , but it had made no difference . |
| 24 | His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard . |
| 25 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 26 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 27 | Only with the retirement of Roberts did he get promotion to the new ball , whereupon he stepped up his speed and took 31 wickets against Australia in 1983–4 , although he then reduced it again . |
| 28 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 29 | When the beachmaster is angered by a serious challenge , he thunders across the sand , humping and heaving his huge body with surprising speed and taking no notice whatever of what lies in his way . |
| 30 | We had started fixing it by then and were hallucinating and everything so we thought we 'll stop taking speed and take smack instead . |