Example sentences of "we take [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall we take photographs ? |
| 2 | My point is that before we try to improve the public image of chemists and chemistry , should n't we take steps to ensure that the public know which profession we are talking about ? |
| 3 | " We took prints we had lying around and played with them and all of a sudden that broke everything loose " . |
| 4 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 5 | ‘ We took machines apart several times and I learned a lot about the controls and the electrical cabinet . |
| 6 | In the afternoon , we took crusts , finally acknowledged as too stale even for puddings , to throw on the waters and the live ducks dived greedily , a raucous caucus , batting aside moorhens and dabchicks , and Granny said : |
| 7 | She took weeks , we took hours . |
| 8 | ‘ WE TOOK drugs to expand our minds , man ! |
| 9 | ‘ We took readings beforehand , did n't we ? ’ |
| 10 | And we took mushrooms a little bit too much . |
| 11 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
| 12 | cos when he was a baby we took loads of photographs inside . |
| 13 | We went out , we took photographs , we come back , we printed them up and we helped each other to learn more techniques and whatever . |
| 14 | ‘ We took pictures of her as we do with every baby in special care . |
| 15 | We took pains to get to the front of the queue for the evening meal so that we would be in time for the start of the picture . |
| 16 | People did n't have money for taxis so we took limousines . |
| 17 | We took measures of the intensity of attachment of 18-month-old infants to their mothers and related them to measures of feeding rigidity , age at weaning , length of the weaning period , age when toilet training began , and severity of toilet training . |
| 18 | We took masses of orders , from Paul Smith , Liberty and Whistles , and only when the show was over did we understand what we 'd let ourselves in for . ’ |
| 19 | We took issues of race and sexuality to the Black and gay communities , again and again , occasionally with some success . |
| 20 | ‘ We took flowers from the cemetery , ’ says Kier , ‘ and gave them to my mum . |
| 21 | So we took turns in pushing the bike along . |
| 22 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 23 | We took turns to lead , every one of us setting a cracking pace , determined to match each other 's resolution . |
| 24 | The mare alongside the stallion rubbed her hip to the bone attempting to do just that , while we took turns swinging from her head and tail as a preventive measure as turbulence upset the flight across Europe . |
| 25 | By now Mick and Paddy had arrived and we took turns , along with an old man and a little girl , to scoop out basins of water . |
| 26 | We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself . |
| 27 | The dip-shit little bastards deserve the fucking Micks turning them into mince ; saw the inside of an armoured car once ; been blown to buggery ; thrown a hundred feet into the air and then rolled all the way down a hill ; we took turns looking inside just to prove we were real men ; looked like the inside of a fucking slaughter-house … ’ |
| 28 | Then we took turns at the dressing table , plastering our faces with lotions , creams , lipstick and eye shadow , and helping ourselves to my mother 's " Arpège " . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , we took turns , you see . |
| 30 | In addition , we took samples from the upper 3.36m of a 14.2-m core ( the Mastercore ) previously analysed for pollen and diatoms ( J. P. Bradbury , unpublished data ) . |