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

A Specimen from Anglo-Saxon.—Let us take as an example a verse from the Anglo-Saxon version of one of the Gospels.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

But I will take as an example any point in the prosecutor's speech.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

In that essay I take, as an example of the method, the Scottish and Northumbrian Kernababy, the puppet made out of the last gleanings of harvest. 

From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew

Let us take as an example a set of operations which we are accustomed to see carried on by one great establishment, that of the Post-Office.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart