take as an example

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So take, as an example, the operation that was mounted in 2011 to take down Bin Laden.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2016

We may take as an example the distribution of scores made by the pupils of the eighth grade at Butte, Montana, in May, 1914.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

We may take as an example the First Part of Henry VI., a feeble piece, to which Shakespeare probably contributed touches throughout, and perhaps one or two complete scenes.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

Or, take as an example the web-footed family: Do not all the geese and the innumerable host of ducks quack?

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

I will take as an example the well-known story of Catskin.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by Gomme, George Laurence