Example sentences of "to take [adj] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 2 | Arachne is a lady I am greatly sympathetic to , an honest craftswoman , who makes perfect patterns , but is a little inclined to take unorthodox snaps at visiting or trespassing strangers , not perceiving the distinction between the two , it may be , often until too late . |
| 3 | Clearly , there are also people ready to take these jobs at the going rate , and not too discontented as long as they are not the breadwinner in their family , and are thus able to regard their wage as additional to the basic family income . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 5 | In that connection , and in view of the impending serious food shortages in the Soviet Union , may I ask whether he was able to take any initiatives at Maastricht to help move foodstuffs from the Community to the Russian people ? |
| 6 | How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ? |
| 7 | Girls also tend to take certain subjects at school or university in much the same way as they are segregated into particular jobs . |
| 8 | IT IS probable that , unless your particular county was involved , you will not be able to say which county won the Refuge Assurance League of 1988 or 1990 , to take two years at random . |
| 9 | US General Mark Clark passed up Ultra and duly paid the price , according to Winterbotham , by failing to take two objectives at a nasty stage of the Italian campaign . |