Example sentences of "[vb base] taken [art] " in BNC.

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1 it 's a real dingy day and I think oh dear , wear their boots and Kagouls , and you feel so much better when you get taken the snow of them , the leaves are nice cos they dry them , scuffle in them .
2 ‘ Obviously we 've taken a close look at Oddbins , ’ says Ann Tonk , standing in Victoria Wine 's smartly re-fitted ‘ Family Group 1 ’ store in London 's Hampstead High Street .
3 We 've taken a selected range of apartments in and around Malia , where you 'll be welcome to mix with the crowd and enjoy all of the facilities and club activities .
4 Now they 've taken a plunge into the dive computer market and the outcome is the DataMax Sport .
5 ‘ We 've taken a bit of stick and rightly so because we 've had a bad week and had two disappointing performances .
6 ‘ I 've taken a bearing on the monastery and radar station on Mount Elias there .
7 So what if I 've taken a jazz classic and clubbed it up ?
8 This month , with time at a premium , we 've taken a few short cuts to preparing delicious Christmas fare : we bought a cooked gammon to transform into a glorious centrepiece with a crunchy nut , honeyed glaze .
9 But I think they recognise that I 'm not trying to exploit the Broads to line my pocket , and that I 've taken a bit of care .
10 But it 's either her or the caretaker who 've taken a lot of stuff out of my place : radio cassette , bedside radio , camera , alarm clock , my son 's chair and table .
11 ‘ I 've taken a stand . ’
12 I 've taken a look at three big names in DOS word processing — WordStar 7 , WordPerfect 5.1 and Q&A 4 — to see what they have to offer in comparison with their much-hyped Windows brethren .
13 I 've taken a dislike to the colour .
14 ‘ Well , Charles , I 've taken a good look at your latest victim .
15 But now we 've taken a short cut through the getting-to-know-you games .
16 ‘ After I 've taken a few pictures .
17 ‘ We 've taken a cottage a couple of miles from the slopes . ’
18 I 've taken a
19 ‘ You 've taken a fair prize there , ’ he said dispassionately , ‘ if he live .
20 They 've taken a print of Hugo 's Amex , but I do n't somehow think he 's on good personal terms with them , and you know how tight everyone is on expenses , these days . ’
21 We 've taken a much more active role in the European Federation that we belong to , the Building and Woodworkers ' Federation and as our conference will know , or some colleagues in congress will know we 've actually had
22 Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products .
23 As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one .
24 Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’
25 ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other .
26 ‘ I 've taken a day off and I 've changed my shift . ’
27 So what I 've tried to show diagrammatically is that , we start ninety four , ninety five with plans in place , shown by the vertical dotted line on the graph , a number of those will die or leave the system for other reasons during the year , and we 've taken a fairly optimistic view I would say , erm , optimistic in the financial sense , that a significant number of those will leave the system during the year .
28 out so you just , so maybe just , maybe , I 've taken a slight hard line to say no , people have got to make a wee bit effort too , but maybe in fact
29 as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road .
30 As a Labour councillor of a rural part of Leicestershire , a very beautiful po part of rural Leicestershire erm I 've taken a straw poll amongst my farming friends and er when I talk about fox hunting they er roll and shrug their shoulders , there 's no problem and if fox hunting is er part of the culling process , they do n't have a problem .
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