Example sentences of "we took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a long walk down the Iron Pier . |
| 2 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 3 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 4 | ‘ We took a lorry load of turf for our own fire and sold the rest in bags door to door . ’ |
| 5 | We took a stroll in the garden where we were joined by Jill . |
| 6 | We thought they were going to follow us , so we took a really weird route home , ’ says Peter . |
| 7 | We took a ferry to Tangier and drove through Morocco almost continuously for two days , arriving at Figuig on the Algerian border on 22 December . |
| 8 | In Bechar , we took a wrong turning and drove to the gates of an army barracks . |
| 9 | Now that the Government is giving tax relief on private health insurance we took a fresh look at all the schemes which qualify . |
| 10 | It 's time we took a load off your mind . |
| 11 | We took a first-class carriage to ourselves . |
| 12 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 13 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 14 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 15 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 16 | Last month we took a look at the essential preparation that should proceed any purchase of an aquarium for any house . |
| 17 | And then we took a remote truck down to Carl 's house and did a few things in his den . |
| 18 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 19 | We took a book from a shelf , which happened to be a gardening book . |
| 20 | We took a step back towards the house and the ground shook again , strongly . |
| 21 | As our first example of deciding on hedonistic grounds we took a choice between two dishes . |
| 22 | I have to admit that when we started we were convinced that , like everybody else , we took a risk by investing in the tournament . |
| 23 | ‘ I started the sport relatively late , but I 'm still improving , ’ he said as we took a breather at the end of a run through soft but stodgy powder ( he floated over it with extreme grace while I plunged head first into it like a deranged puppy ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Then we realised there were plenty of tourists who could also use our products , so we took a risk and opened the shop . |
| 25 | We took a look at the going hourly rate for a range of trades and services to see how they compared with Mr Carter-Ruck 's . |
| 26 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 27 | We took a first look at the pay and file provisions with the non-tax specialist in mind ( see ACCOUNTANCY , April , p 80 ) . |
| 28 | Selecting the right sized Disc , we took a pan of milk and we allowed it to heat to the point where it was about to boil over . |
| 29 | ‘ We took a subway into Manhattan , ’ Dmitry remembers , ‘ and things started looking a little less bleak . ’ |
| 30 | Holden was missing for 18 minutes and Reid admitted : ‘ We took a calculated gamble by not replacing Rick — and it did not come off . ’ |