Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you 'd better take the torch with you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better take the old bastard back . ’ |
| 3 | Derrida 's reply did not take the form of a reasoned rebuttal but of ninety pages of verbal clowning , which put Searle in his place by referring to him throughout as ‘ Sarl ’ , an acronym for ‘ Societé à responsabilité limitée ’ , which means a limited company . |
| 4 | A processor on the train would match that information with the train 's performance , and the brakes could be applied if the driver did not take the required action . |
| 5 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 6 | For the most part people did not take the question seriously ; it was the characteristic passion of young men in the grip of recent learning , or policemen temporarily possessed by the Libyan officials ' variety of amok . |
| 7 | Indenbaum did not take the proposition seriously , as he felt sure that Modi would have forgotten all about it in the morning , but Modigliani was insistent and asked Indenbaum if he had canvas and paint at home . |
| 8 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 9 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 10 | But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted . |
| 11 | But she adds that past hazards to workers making contraceptives and detergents are a warning : ‘ In the past employers did not take the proper precautions . |
| 12 | By the time we crossed the Forth , it was early morning , the tide was out , so we did not take the cliff-top path but rode along the beach . |
| 13 | Moreover , management did not take the opportunities presented by the new machinery to tighten control over production . |
| 14 | From the manse the police took away the minister 's cloak , a long black cloak with a hood that he used for funerals , Remembrance Day services , and other outdoor events associated with his ministry ; they removed a broken cross , waiting in a cupboard for repair ; but they did not take the broken-off piece of that cross which was lying at the bottom of the same cupboard . |
| 15 | What would be the position if the parent company did not take the exemption afforded by s 248 ? |
| 16 | ‘ Vinnie had an agent who did not take the necessary precautions of being able either to edit or vet what was said on the video . |
| 17 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 18 | To discuss such issues outside the parlement of Paris , in territory which was in the immediate lordship of the English crown ( though held from the crown of France ) , represented a concession to English requests for a meeting which did not take the form of a lawsuit between unequals . |
| 19 | The Maud Committee , for example , distinguished between councillors who were members of a political party and those who were not , but did not take the analysis any further . |
| 20 | Promotion above the rank of governor did not take the successful aspirant out of his own service into a vaster bureaucracy . |
| 21 | In particular , he did not take the opportunity to restore the land to the heir general , his close ally Ralph lord Neville , but simply added it to his fund of patronage . |
| 22 | They did not take the direct coastal route ( 13:17 ) because they were unready to encounter the Philistine forces . |
| 23 | Men who did not take the cross received gifts of distaff and wool , implying that they were no better than women . |
| 24 | And from here it was but a step to suggesting that women did not take the whole thing seriously as a profession . |
| 25 | The dismissal of Haig would have been much more serious , but with Law 's advice Lloyd George did not take the risk . |
| 26 | Their racism did not take the form of embittered prejudice . |
| 27 | Alix , I regret to say , did not take the Civil Service seriously as a prospect . |
| 28 | The respondent did not take the opportunity to consult a solicitor until March 1989 , nor did he prior to then carry out or arrange for the carrying out of any investigations . |
| 29 | If I did not take the goods out , he would stay there . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |