Example sentences of "he [verb] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 2 | Did he want to take off his coat ? |
| 3 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 4 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 5 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 6 | And without even checking where it was he planned to take her . |
| 7 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 8 | Giving evidence , coroner 's officer DC Dave Hemes told how Mr Ryder , of Green Lane , Formby , gave no hint that he planned to take his own life . |
| 9 | He agreed to take out what he calls two innocent chapters on his work in MI5 but insisted on keeping in his views on the need for oversight . |
| 10 | He agreed to take his chance . |
| 11 | Boulton happened to be a creditor of Roebuck and to cover the debt he agreed to take Roebuck 's two-thirds share of Watt 's patent . |
| 12 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf . |
| 14 | I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street . |
| 15 | David Emanuel , has an enviable clientele , but with a daughter at the College , he agreed to take charge of the charity event . |
| 16 | He agreed to take part in a Liverpool Polytechnic experiment to assess the effect of stress on referees , by monitoring the heartbeat and pulse , taking other factors such as fitness into account . |
| 17 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 18 | He rode to take their tribute like a Roman general in triumph , and the cry ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ rose again and again , first from the nearest troops , then from afar . |
| 19 | He expected to take on at least another four by September and more once the village was fully operational . |
| 20 | On two occasions he applied to take over redundant or nearly redundant churches and on a third to start a new church . |
| 21 | Like many other non-Luxembourg accountants , he applied to take advantage of the transitional regulations . |
| 22 | He was working until the evening of the following day , but he asked to take me out again and I said it would be delightful . |
| 23 | In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan . |
| 24 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 25 | He failed to take a wicket at Sydney in the next Test , and helped Gibbs to a reciprocal three wickets in four balls by falling to the first he received . |
| 26 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 27 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 28 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 29 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 30 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |