Example sentences of "[vb -s] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right yes , but it has takes no takes no account of second homes . |
| 2 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 3 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 4 | Yeah I know our Lorraine has took the phone over . |
| 5 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 6 | Councillor Ardor Deems took a turn about the long room . |
| 7 | The British Government has taken every possible precaution to safe-guard sensitive information and screen prospective recruits for the UDR . |
| 8 | Bazaar rumour has it that as many as 100 of these anti-American clerics have been locked away ; but the government has taken no public stand against them . |
| 9 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |
| 10 | The WRC suggested it should be banned , but the government has taken no action . |
| 11 | The Board has taken no decisions about the timing of the reprocessing of subsequent arisings of AGR fuel or of PWR fuel . |
| 12 | Sun has taken no orders for the Model 52 and 54 , originally due this quarter and next quarter respectively , and told securities analysts each would be off a quarter . |
| 13 | Our discussion of semantic constituency has taken no account of whether the elements under consideration are parts of words , words , or sequences of words . |
| 14 | Mrs. Harvey is the second defendant but has taken no part in the proceedings . |
| 15 | The matter may also arise indirectly in situations in which the decision-maker belongs to an organisation which initiated the proceeding , but where he himself has taken no part in the decision to prosecute . |
| 16 | An importer or wholesaler will not be able to rely on this defence if he has taken no steps to require his supplier to supply goods which correspond with the relevant legal requirements . |
| 17 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine has taken no action against 56 of the 79 English waste disposal authorities which have failed to fulfil their legal obligation of 10 years ' standing to draw up plans for waste disposal . |
| 18 | Indeed , the model outlined in this chapter has taken no explicit account of the monetary sector and as such is sometimes called the ‘ simple ’ Keynesian model . |
| 19 | As the decades have gone by , scholarly work has piled up , so that this category of book has taken a larger , longer and much more expensive form than before . |
| 20 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 21 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 22 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |
| 23 | The Speaker of the House of Commons , Bernard Weatherill , has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead . |
| 24 | IN THE Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals at Sadler 's Wells , the former world champion , Anatoly Karpov , has taken a 2-1 lead after his opponent , Artur Yusupov , resigned the adjourned third game of their match yesterday . |
| 25 | Similar work in the United States , he says , has taken a multi-million dollar , five-year programme to achieve . |
| 26 | Olshan makes Susan a powerful , smart , sensual woman moving surefootedly through the opulent Westchester County jungle where the Kaplans live : she issues orders to the au pair , knows the Manhattan-Hartsdale train times , and deals honestly with a husband who has taken a sexual vacation from her on the very afternoon of the Rosen drowning . |
| 27 | If they sign an ‘ income received ’ deal , they will only receive their proportion of the royalties sent to their UK publisher , after the foreign publisher has taken a percentage . |
| 28 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 29 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 30 | It is just past three in the morning , and the journey here has taken a little over three hours . |