Example sentences of "who take " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so great was the uproar and confusion , that few there were who took arms , but instead thereof they turned their backs and fled toward the sea . |
| 2 | Despite the ultimate in Michelin -starred success , Bernard Loiseau is not a chef who takes himself too seriously , discovers Roy Hayter |
| 3 | The pilot who takes a chance is always to blame if he creates an unnecessary hazard . |
| 4 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 5 | You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be . |
| 6 | I shall be happy for the fellow who takes my place . ’ |
| 7 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher is one of the few senior politicians who takes pride in stating her political convictions and insists that policies should derive from a coherent set of principles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 11 | Keith Griffin is one who takes an extreme position believing that |
| 12 | He is a small , bearded , rather rotund man in his late thirties , always jovial and yet a true professional who takes his responsibilities very seriously . |
| 13 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
| 14 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 15 | And one of the two new caps , the Australian Brian Smith who takes over at fly-half from the injured Paul Dean , has had a less than spectacular season with Leinster . |
| 16 | Clare is well motivated , one of those who takes advice quite well . ’ |
| 17 | Clare is well motivated , one of those who takes advice quite well . ’ |
| 18 | Out goes the Chingford Skinhead — who has a tiresome tendency to bang on about politics — and in comes a writer who takes a broader swipe , Tom Utley . |
| 19 | Mr Winchester predictably proves his case for part of the Pacific rim , from Japan round to California , but not for the whole circumference — and certainly not for the islands dotted in the Basin , despite the charming Western Samoan girl who takes his bags at Los Angeles airport and quotes Robert Louis Stevenson to him . |
| 20 | But the same rules as before are applicable to a mortgagee who takes possession , and to a mortgagor who is in possession . |
| 21 | A mortgagee who takes the title-deeds can not register , and his position as against that of a mortgagee whose mortgage is registrable and registered is at present , for lack of judicial decision , merely conjectural . |
| 22 | In most cases it is not the jury who takes this decision but the prosecution , who , with the judge 's agreement , accepts the defendant 's plea of guilty to manslaughter under section 2 . |
| 23 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 24 | It is increasingly likely that anyone who takes an active role in any organisation will at some point find themselves involved in setting up a ‘ special event ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ And they get told their riding positions , ’ says Haig who , as Station Officer , is the only one who takes the same position on the fire engine each time it goes out . |
| 26 | And Wing Cdr Geoffrey Smith , who takes on Robert Atkins in similarly marginal South Ribble , is a retired surgeon who was educated at Cambridge . |
| 27 | She is a big lady who takes a lot of space with her personality and conviviality . |
| 28 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 29 | Michael Portillo , who takes over , brings with him the label of Thatcherite hero-in-waiting . |
| 30 | Willie Carson , who takes over on Glasgow , may initiate a double with Tiger Claw in the Town Purse Handicap ( 2.30 ) . |