Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my God , my rock , in whom I take refuge , |
| 2 | I I took Mr Jewitt 's contribution or comment really on that to almost confirm the way in which you suggested the additional wording , but I paused . |
| 3 | The driver 's nephew , whose mother was also killed , said his aunt was not someone who took risks . |
| 4 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 5 | There were tasks for everyone which took account of intelligence , educational opportunities and personal gifts . |
| 6 | Cos they do little trees on them which takes space . |
| 7 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 8 | ( May 15th ) contains a number of statements with which I take issue . |
| 9 | ‘ It is only the injustice of it which — to which I take exception . ’ |
| 10 | However , certain language to which I take exception is used when the Tory party tries to defend the privatisation of the coal industry . |
| 11 | At the very least it would greatly increase the speed at which you took notes and also reduce a little of the bulk of your burgeoning files ! |
| 12 | It was Franco himself who took Maidstone home . |
| 13 | No one seemed to know what to do next , or what was expected of them , and in the end it was David himself who took control . |
| 14 | Moreover if we wish to interpret ‘ consolations ’ in a rather more modern way we can not but admire the efficiency with which she took control of her own life . |
| 15 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
| 16 | Vivienne Hart has pointed out how many actions , of which she takes populism as her example , which have been presented as subversive of government , are in fact defensive of the constitution in general against the constitutionally subversive , or supposed constitutionally subversive actions of particular governments and politicians . |
| 17 | It sustains the flow of rivers , from which we take water for drinking and many industrial uses . |
| 18 | Two particular issues of which we take account in attempting to refine the simple hypotheses are , first , that any single technology is probably , of itself , not sufficiently important to affect firm performance to any large extent , and second , that potential adopters of new technology differ from each other in various important dimensions and thus the ‘ best ’ adoption date for one firm may differ considerably from the ‘ best ’ adoption date for another firm . |
| 19 | Those present at the coronation of Pepin must have known , if only from the Old Testament , that the rite in which they took part was already one of great antiquity . |
| 20 | John Mundell , Commercial Manager stated ‘ We are delighted with the response from the contestants and the spirit in which they took part . |
| 21 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 22 | We should begin , therefore , not with the elections themselves , but by recreating the contours of the political culture in which they took place . |
| 23 | There 's the musical racket in which they take sanctuary , the limbo in which they live , their password language and their excessive capacity for indulgence . |
| 24 | Thirdly , particular actors are rarely , if ever , indispensable to the processes in which they take part . |
| 25 | These regional ministries operate as a normal part of the Whitehall machine except that they are located in Scotland and Wales , and they have the normal right to membership of any Cabinet committees dealing with matters for which they take responsibility in their areas . |
| 26 | Higher education , though , is a matter of getting students launched on a process of self development , in which they take responsibility for enlarging and deepening their own consciousness . |
| 27 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 28 | To conclude , the claim made in the introduction merits reiteration : ‘ Age relations ( including youth ) are part of economic relations and the political and ideological structures in which they take place . |
| 29 | Territories here are seen as action-facilitating in the sense that many of the patterns of action we have observed rely for their appropriateness on the fully defined context in which they take place . |
| 30 | Pragmatics provides us with a means of relating stretches of language to the physical , social , and psychological world in which they take place . |