Example sentences of "[conj] take their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , eventually , the Kurds were given the ‘ choice ’ of staying in the mountains to continue to die in droves — or taking their chances with Saddam and heading back where they 'd come from . |
| 2 | But then again , as he said , there 's plenty of grass and as for turning them out or taking their does , if they 're all up to his size and weight they 've nothing to fear from a crowd like us . |
| 3 | Probing questions may either encourage vendors to follow the correct procedures or to take their goods to easier markets , notably Switzerland and the US . |
| 4 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 5 | Using Dement 's analogy , rather than taking their sleep in one meal , subjects may achieve enough to keep going by snatching " snacks " . |
| 6 | The ingenious minds that take their delight in inventing causal hypotheses to account for these present seeming relations , through reference to supposed conditions of the past , will work more easily , and perhaps with more truthful results , if supplied with properly arranged data truly illustrating the present . |
| 7 | Moving round the circle , the teacher faces each pupil in turn and takes their hand in a special handshake . |
| 8 | If an employee 's hand slips into the governor 's pocket and removes any spare cash , that is theft ; if the governor puts his hand into employees ' pockets and takes their spare cash , i.e. reduces wages , even below the legal minimum , that is the labour market operating reasonably . |
| 9 | It follows that , because our young men can not earn good money , they can not afford to marry and take their wives out of the labour market . ’ |
| 10 | Each felt the need to study and take their work to a more intensive level following a year painting together from the life model at Piers Ottey 's studio . |
| 11 | I suggest that it would be useful to publish his comments , not so as to set estate agents at each others ' throats , entertaining though that might be , but so that members of the public who intend placing their properties on the market may shop around and take their decisions in a more informed way . |
| 12 | Some fresh-faced youth , who had not been properly introduced to the enemy , now had the nerve to try and take their place . |
| 13 | Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important . |
| 14 | In 775 Charles began by invading Westphalia , dispersing the people and taking their large entrenched camp at Sigiburg . |
| 15 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 16 | The concept of clients ' involvement and taking their views into account in service provision is still relatively recent . |
| 17 | You have to care for them , which means starting from where they are in life , not where you want them to be , and taking their lives and lack of belief seriously . |
| 18 | Complete five day faecal collections were obtained from patients , at home or place of work and taking their normal diet . |
| 19 | But now the airmen are leaving and taking their cheerleaders and shoulder pads with them . |
| 20 | After a conversation with two traffic wardens and taking their advice I went to the police station and reported my loss . |
| 21 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 22 | A few like Hughie Gallacher , the marvellous centre-forward for Newcastle and Scotland in the 1920s , could never adjust to the sudden loss of fame and took their own life . |
| 23 | Opening the debate yesterday , Lord Mackay said the bill 's key aims were to ensure a voice for the users of legal services , and to make sure that decision-takers on legal services were answerable and took their decisions with the benefit of full and considered advice . |
| 24 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 25 | Then they entered the Palace with him , and took their seats upon the precious benches . |
| 26 | They thanked him and took their leave . |
| 27 | They followed the coffin on to the boat and took their seats in the front row . |
| 28 | Known as ‘ lubberkins ’ in Elizabethan times , the more doltish lobs were relegated to the simplest of tasks and took their refreshments outdoors , so clumsy and ill-mannered were they . |
| 29 | When the Penge route closed on 6 December 1933 , Nos. 1E , 2E and 3E were transferred to Penge depôt and took their place on the Crystal Palace route augmented service . |
| 30 | The Council men and women came in and took their places at the Star Table . |