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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 12 | That takes a quarter of a million Earth years , or thereabouts , ’ Bernice explained . |
| 13 | takes a quarter of an hour |
| 14 | you 've got fields well he goes and takes a ball or something and throws it and tires him out a bit . |
| 15 | In the meantime , we are taken to inspect the treatment plant , where King takes a sample of the effluent . |
| 16 | G. takes a sample in the ditch , which shows clear signs of sewage fungus , with its tell-tale grey strands waving in the water . |
| 17 | There is no doctor free to see me , but a nurse takes a sample of urine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Maggie takes a sip of beer to remind the others that that 's all she 's there for , and looks defiantly around . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He takes a swig , keeping a belligerent , tormented eye on me . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The pilot who takes a chance is always to blame if he creates an unnecessary hazard . |
| 28 | That 's how life is , though it takes a boy away from his home . |
| 29 | In short , DesignWorks 1.2 is a program that takes a function many other applications have sophisticated , and ‘ simplicated ’ it . |
| 30 | This means that he is always in control : he never takes a holiday from his responsibilities . |