Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have worked with a cook , a caretaker , a community policeman , a coach driver and an athletics coach — all of whom greatly enjoyed taking part in our drama and working with the children . |
| 2 | My swimming partner and I greatly enjoyed taking part in the event . |
| 3 | After midnight , there would be a family get-together at my parents ' house ; I still wanted to take part in it , however far from home I was . |
| 4 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 5 | Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management . |
| 6 | but you still have to take care in case somebody says well I 've just done fractions two , and you say but you have n't done fractions |
| 7 | Whether you love cichlids or would rather keep wasps for a hobby , can I urge you to ready Mary 's article in case you ever wish to take advantage of our service . |
| 8 | Have you ever had to take time off for health reasons ? |
| 9 | You also have to take care if you get onto an older horse afterwards . |
| 10 | It was Francois Bergot and Jan Martens who both suggested taking advantage of the gathering together of all the drawings for the book to present as many of them as possible to the public in a splendid exhibition . |
| 11 | It could also be appropriate for the professional investor who simply wishes to take advantage of cheap borrowing . |
| 12 | Apart from LCpl Smith , and my driver ( I have my own Land-Rover ) , the Adjutant is really the one I work most closely with ; we always seem to take part in the same parades , but we usually get back to barracks first , leaving the officers and men on guard . |
| 13 | " We still like to take fuchsia cuttings but we are now more interested in small trees and shrubs , and most recently , in water and marginal plants " , explains Barbara , whose interest really began when her grandfather gave them his greenhouse when he was too ill to look after it . |
| 14 | We also have to take responsibility for how we feel about ourselves and our actions . |
| 15 | We also have to take account of capital investment in the necessary equipment and extra staff , and of the commercial interests of Ordnance Survey , which might well wish to have a say in regulating the way in which the material is used in our reading rooms . |
| 16 | One also has to take notice of the disadvantages to one 's life of too obsessive a preoccupation with questions of the precise limits of authority . |
| 17 | We now propose to take deregulation and privatisation further . |
| 18 | It did n't take her long to regret taking part . |
| 19 | They just keep taking money away from me . |
| 20 | I warned them that d-i-yers should stop short of tampering with British Telecom 's property , but they nevertheless decided to take look inside the junction box . |
| 21 | They are frequently written in a way that omits insulin when the blood glucose is within the normal range , and they usually fail to take account of the insulin resistance induced by increased ketone body production . |
| 22 | Even public sector business entities , such as the nationalized industries , find that although they may have a very dominant profit or financial target , they often have to take account of wider exogenous implications . |
| 23 | As exchanges assume a more formal role , and seek new means to distinguish themselves from off-exchange business , they increasingly have to take note of a wider spectrum of interests , including off-exchange traders , customers , financiers , and the public interest itself . |
| 24 | They therefore prefer to take part in church work . |
| 25 | They actually start to take responsibility for themselves and become empowered in some way . |
| 26 | Even with the credibility and power of the National Gallery 's support , the Barnes Foundation faces additional legal challenges if it ever hopes to take part of its collection around the world . |
| 27 | This was something we had to put a stop to straight away , and after relaying time and again the simple formula TMPF : TRIM — MIXTURE — PITCH — FLAPS , which he repeated , he always forgot to take action . |
| 28 | But Colin remained , in Emerson 's own account , very twitchy : winning meant a great deal to him , he was the arch-competitor and in a way he also wanted to take revenge on a track which had both hurt and humiliated him . |
| 29 | This behaviour was unmentionable a few years before , although it probably did take place . |
| 30 | So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities . |