Example sentences of "take [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to " explain " why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago — it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve . |
| 2 | can take off that weekend . |
| 3 | Er and put us out of our er how many ballistic shields did you take into that flat ? |
| 4 | How , how long do you think it 'll take for give up how long will it take before that person feels uncomfortable and has to respond ? |
| 5 | The attitude that the United Kingdom Government will take to that directive will depend upon its final form . |
| 6 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 7 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 8 | Why did n't you have your photo took like that with them ? |
| 9 | She 's got all these photos she took with that new camera — all jumbled up in an envelope — and she was saying she ought to put them into something . |
| 10 | The name ‘ Satis House ’ , however , CD took from that of another Rochester residence which stands on the site of the mansion of Richard Watts . |
| 11 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 12 | The one thing I remember taking from that report was the recommendation about how one should present drama to children that you do n't patronise , you do n't talk down . |
| 13 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 14 | Looking at that picture reminds me of the photos of me and Marie — you know , them we took in that photo booth . |
| 15 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 16 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 17 | He took in that fact for the first time ; in spite of his knowing job , he had a clownish naîveté about fate and always tended to be innocent of the possibility of calamity . |
| 18 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 19 | He was not suited to the world of bureaucracy and committees , but took to that job his generous and natural enthusiasm and made a great success of it . |
| 20 | ‘ Such a pity she took to that unfortunate boy Saul Quatt , instead of that good-looking young officer that was quartered here that year . ’ |
| 21 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 22 | I do n't know if I can answer that to be absolutely honest I I mean I really feel that erm that would be reading too much into the decision that that our members took at that time . |
| 23 | She has finally taken off that pretentious pair of shades . |
| 24 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 25 | Assuming that the home-made EB3 had signally failed to cut any jazz-rock mustard , which direction , instrument-wise , had Neil taken after that ? |
| 26 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 27 | How far is a specific position or attitude taken towards that theme ( which may be anything from a conventional topic , such as lost love , to an apparently unresolvable philosophical question , such as the meaning of life ) ? |
| 28 | Furthermore , account was taken of that preoccupation in the Convention itself , article 22 of which governs cases of related actions brought before courts in different contracting states . |
| 29 | All I 'm saying is , what account has been taken of that other ingredient , which is the strategic guidance for West Yorkshire ? |
| 30 | Although they had no power to punish prisoners themselves , the overseers reported any misdemeanours to staff and their word would almost always be taken against that of another prisoner . |