Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper Rupert Moon said : ‘ There are firemen , policemen and doctors in our side and they have had to switch shifts or take holiday leave so that we could get together early . |
| 2 | And for those who prefer more leisurely pursuits you can picnic , sunbathe , ride a cable car into the surrounding peaks or take a ride on one of the oldest cog railways in the world . |
| 3 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 4 | 10.2 The benefit of Condition 10.1 is granted to the Purchaser by the Seller only in the event that the Purchaser shall give the Seller the earliest possible notice in writing of any such claim being made or action threatened or brought against it , shall make no admission of liability or take any other action in connection therewith , shall permit the Seller to have the conduct of the claim pursuant to Condition 10.1 , and shall ( at the Seller 's expense ) give all reasonable information , cooperation and assistance to the Seller ( including without limitation lending its name to proceedings ) in relation to the conduct of the claim . |
| 5 | The Club had to decide , said Brower , whether to continue as a society of companions on the trail or take the position that ‘ the entire environment is the proper province of conservationists ’ . |
| 6 | Not that a girl would ever be allowed to touch the great hammers or take the white-hot metal from the furnace with the giant tongs . |
| 7 | In these cases I either have to wait for a passing walker and ask for assistance , try to reverse my direction or take the plunge and risk damage to chair and body . |
| 8 | The Bank staff are there to help you , answer your queries or take details of your complaint . |
| 9 | Women & children were set free from slavery & the men unemployed from farming could move to mines & take up jobs which the women & children had previously filled . |
| 10 | If you 're feeling brave you can swim in chilly crystal-clear lakes or take a hike in the mountains . |
| 11 | The only catch is whether you decided to make a wise investment or take a speculative chance some months or even years ago . |
| 12 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 13 | An individualist rational choice or Game Theory line can take states as units or take flesh-and-blood individuals as units ; witness the way in which microeconomics often treats firms as individual units needing no further analysis . |
| 14 | They will use a car or take the plane . ’ |
| 15 | And in a radio programme , you have exactly the same thing , it 's the first fifteen or twenty seconds which makes you decide ‘ Am I going to listen to this , or am I going to switch this off , and go out and make a cup of tea or take the dog for a walk ? ’ |
| 16 | to consider applications for places on the Course and to make offers , invite for interview or take other action as appropriate ; |
| 17 | Some warrens are so extensive they can range over as much as 50 acres or take in a complete gravel working . |
| 18 | It is a fine place to have a picnic or take the dog for a long walk , by the ponds in the woodlands . |
| 19 | Does n't he remember that at the General Election the tabloids and so-called quality newspapers slaughtered Labour leader Neil Kinnock who did not have an affair with an actress or take freebie holidays ? |
| 20 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 21 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 22 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But there are a hundred referees that take panel games , and two thirds of those are assessed regularly . |
| 24 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 25 | Once you are up and going , you should select your course out through the waves aiming to jump on only one or two waves that take your fancy . |
| 26 | We must recognise that we need both accurate descriptions of language that are related to situation , purpose and mode ( i.e. whether the language is spoken or written ) , and prescriptions that take account of context , appropriateness and the expression of meaning . |
| 27 | parties that take about three , four percent of the vote but they have got far more sway over the government than their vote really . |
| 28 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 29 | To : All branches that take in national parks |
| 30 | They are money channels that take a fee for the channelling service . |