Example sentences of "take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you know is you took a bearing from A and it could be anywhere along here , could be quite close to it or it could be miles up over here . |
| 2 | We 'll discuss that after you 've took a look at |
| 3 | It was n't until they were er sort of six or seven years old that er you 'd , you 'd took a part time job . |
| 4 | So the bottom line is I took a cab into town and the driver said this was a real nice place … |
| 5 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 6 | they way , way he I mean he 's took a bite out of it or something |
| 7 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 8 | I do n't think he 'd been ill-treated , but he 's took a lot of love and a lot of attention |
| 9 | Got a florist took a claim out January of eighty-nine , reasonably low premiums , fourteen pound , thirty-two a month . |
| 10 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 11 | When the bloodbath begins , Emilia is stabbed by her husband who is killed by Lycander who then kills Leonardo and takes a mortal wound himself . |
| 12 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 13 | That takes a quarter of a million Earth years , or thereabouts , ’ Bernice explained . |
| 14 | takes a quarter of an hour |
| 15 | you 've got fields well he goes and takes a ball or something and throws it and tires him out a bit . |
| 16 | In the meantime , we are taken to inspect the treatment plant , where King takes a sample of the effluent . |
| 17 | G. takes a sample in the ditch , which shows clear signs of sewage fungus , with its tell-tale grey strands waving in the water . |
| 18 | There is no doctor free to see me , but a nurse takes a sample of urine . |
| 19 | From time to time , she too takes a sip of wine , gazing blankly at the bar , the barman and , beyond , the dance-floor , where sharp-featured Polish men and their pleasingly plump girlfriends boogie decorously to the strains of a bored rock trio . |
| 20 | Maggie takes a sip of beer to remind the others that that 's all she 's there for , and looks defiantly around . |
| 21 | She sits on the edge of the bed , takes a sip , catches sight of her knees in the mirror overhead and remembers her prepared speech . |
| 22 | Mr Norman Lamont takes a sip of his drink — rumoured to be whisky and water — after announcing there would be no rise in the duty on spirits . |
| 23 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 24 | An accident may happen — such as when a sufferer form alcoholism takes a sip of a drink that he or she was not aware contained alcohol — and this would not even be termed as a sip . |
| 25 | The animation is full of great touches : for example , a victorious knight removes his helmet and bows to his stricken foe , and the pirate takes a swig from his hip flask . |
| 26 | He takes a swig , keeping a belligerent , tormented eye on me . |
| 27 | John from Burton on Trent takes a size 21 , which won him a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of Britain 's biggest feet . |
| 28 | The pilot who takes a chance is always to blame if he creates an unnecessary hazard . |
| 29 | That 's how life is , though it takes a boy away from his home . |
| 30 | In short , DesignWorks 1.2 is a program that takes a function many other applications have sophisticated , and ‘ simplicated ’ it . |