Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provided traction ( pulling carts , ploughs , harrows etc. ) , meat , leather , and a host of other resources like bone ( for glue ) , grease , sinews , together with milk ( for butter and cheese to store ) and manure — either deposited on or taken out to arable fields . |
| 2 | They took into account whether I had put matches down or taken them away . |
| 3 | ‘ Was it being put in or taken out ? ’ |
| 4 | I thought , I 'm for it now , but all she said when she 'd bustled in and taken the coal from the cart , was , 'Ere yar . |
| 5 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 6 | When was the first time you were in the dark , locked in and taken over by someone else ? |
| 7 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 8 | He had walked in and taken over and the marvel man had come up with nothing . |
| 9 | The erotic has swept in and taken over : split the maternal off , like a tree split by lightning — one half stands and grows , the other simply falls and dies . |
| 10 | There is no totally ‘ green ’ energy source and if we want to help the environment we must be sparing with what we use and campaign for renewable energy sources — like wind , wave and solar power — to be invested in and taken more seriously . |
| 11 | could have just put their plates in and taken |
| 12 | The station had gone , too , and they 'd shut the line down and taken up the rails . |
| 13 | The moment when Pascoe had sat down and taken a sip of the wine ! |
| 14 | ‘ At night the corpses are cut down and taken to the great lime pits near Charterhouse . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think I I 'm likely to say anything use , use down and taken in evidence against me |
| 16 | I 've spent six weeks with my axe to the grindstone , rebuilding the car and these thieving toe-rags have come along and taken it . ’ |
| 17 | A government spokesman said yesterday : ‘ Tenders are looked at individually and taken on merit . ’ |
| 18 | So sensitive lefty souls have turned their faces away and taken to calling themselves ‘ Britons . ’ |
| 19 | Claudine had phoned indignantly to say that you had taken Marie 's key , ordered the poor little thing away and taken possession of the farmhouse . ’ |
| 20 | As I see it , the considerations set out above and taken as a whole lead irresistibly to the conclusion that , when considering the expression ‘ any person ’ in the sections , it is impossible to identify any particular limitation which can be said , with any degree of confidence , to represent the presumed intention of Parliament . |
| 21 | You know , pick one up and he 'd collared thus and taken me . |
| 22 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 23 | The fragments may be eaten there and then or tucked away beside the column to be collected when the hunt is over and taken back to feed the queen and those who stayed back in camp to tend and protect her . |
| 24 | There , from January 1801 onwards , correspondence covering the years since 1780 was systematically assembled from the State Paper Office and elsewhere and taken to the foreign office — an obvious response to the need frequently to refer to it in the conduct of daily business and the resulting inconvenience if it were stored anywhere else . |
| 25 | One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground . |
| 26 | The hands in my pockets had measured and scraped , put on and taken off . |
| 27 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
| 28 | Their main advantage comes when crampons must be put on and taken off several times a day — more of an alpine situation than a Scottish winter one . |
| 29 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 30 | The most pointed criticism is that the angle of the bevel is not rounded off or taken back far enough , so producing an elbow that hinders the smooth entry and flow of cut . |