Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for [pron] to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy had already decided that this would be the wisest course for her to take . |
| 2 | It remains then to show that this is the right course for us to take . |
| 3 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 4 | Every day she prepared fresh food for us to take . |
| 5 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |
| 6 | Ridley said that the Director of Public Prosecutions had now withdrawn his earlier objections to such a publication , but it would not be in the public interest for him to take any further action on the matter . |
| 7 | He says you lot ca n't play and it 's getting to him , it 's too much work for him to take on , what with his writing and everything . |
| 8 | It was a tremendous relief for them to take a stand in the way they had done . |
| 9 | The not-so-dour Scot knows it will be a unique experience for him to take the visitor 's dressing room at the citadel where his deeds as player and manager became legend — as did his departure . |
| 10 | The fact is that men do n't like childbirth much , because , unlike fixing the car or mowing the lawn , or even loading the dishwasher , there is no pivotal , directional role for us to take . |
| 11 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 12 | It seems good sense for us to take advantage of such bounties of nature in order to conserve the limited resources of their coral reef habitats . |
| 13 | There would surely have been a strong argument for it to take its gauge from the parent line and worry about the break of gauge later , when it met the Cambrian — which of course would probably not have happened . |
| 14 | Of course , he might have been lying , I suppose , but that would have been an imaginative step for him to take . |
| 15 | In fact , as things stand I see it as the only course for you to take … |
| 16 | From there it is a comparatively small step for you to take on a role in a piece of forum theatre , and then on to working in role with the whole class . |
| 17 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 18 | ‘ But obviously it is a difficult decision for anyone to take . |
| 19 | There was never any need for her to take the initiative or inveigle him into bed . |
| 20 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
| 21 | He made clear on 27 November what he felt was the best action for him to take in his capacity as a Law Officer . |
| 22 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 23 | Soon , we taxied back down the road while cars blocked other traffic for us to take off . |
| 24 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 25 | The engine driver also gave control some idea of how long it would take to clean the fire and raise sufficient steam for him to take his train forward . |