Example sentences of "you took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you took no action . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I seem to recall you telling me you took no pleasure in a woman 's coldness , ’ she said with more assurance than she felt . |
| 3 | ‘ So you took a job in Germany ? ’ |
| 4 | You took a chill ? |
| 5 | ‘ If you took a commission ? |
| 6 | ‘ You took a sodding risk . ’ |
| 7 | Hitherto , if you wanted to say something , you took a risk . |
| 8 | ‘ perhaps , Mr Prentice , as you 're obviously out of work , it would be better if you took a course in housekeeping . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , sir , the way we see it is that , instead of going to Finchley , you took a cab as if you were coming back here . |
| 10 | I. If you took a farm somewhere on the lowlands on either side of the Pennines , the way you would choose your crops and livestock would depend largely on four things : ( i ) the soils ; ( ii ) the rainfall ; ( iii ) the urban markets ; ( iv ) what your neighbours did . |
| 11 | During Biblical times , some ancients thought moonlight was dangerous for one 's eyes but a more modern belief was that if you took a child , suffering from whooping cough , outside to look at the new moon , then it would effect a cure . |
| 12 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 13 | I do hope you took a photograph of yourself before you started . |
| 14 | ‘ After seeing the PM you took a long leave and then came back . |
| 15 | Every time you took a breath of that foul air you could not help imagining the cholera poison gnawing at your lungs . |
| 16 | When was the last time you took a risk at work ? |
| 17 | And when you took A resin straight , well then , yeah , then you could see it , see what they were up to , bribing riggers , faking reports . |
| 18 | ‘ You took a chance and it has worked out and I am so happy for you . |
| 19 | ‘ Comfort says you took a walk today . |
| 20 | When you look back , when you look back you see , erm , understand that after nineteen twenty six , at the local pits , if you if you took a watch , if you took a watch to work with you , so that you 're in a position to know the time , and tell the other people what the time was , you see , you were running the serious risk of losing your job . |
| 21 | When you look back , when you look back you see , erm , understand that after nineteen twenty six , at the local pits , if you if you took a watch , if you took a watch to work with you , so that you 're in a position to know the time , and tell the other people what the time was , you see , you were running the serious risk of losing your job . |
| 22 | You took a bad fall — twenty feet , maybe — almost vertical . |
| 23 | If this sounds familiar , then it 's high time you took a fresh look at your hair . |
| 24 | You took a taxi and I was discovered with a length of picture cord around my neck … ’ |
| 25 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 26 | I believe if you took a referendum today a majority would agree that television should be stopped forthwith . |
| 27 | ‘ And the second time in Norfolk you took a bullet in the right shoulder and only got away by the skin of your teeth , leaving Kurt Steiner behind . ’ |
| 28 | Erm you took a gun to your girlfriend 's house , |
| 29 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 30 | Mrs Lewis would be glad if you took a bit more interest in household furnishings and interior decoration . ’ |