Example sentences of "to take [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter . |
| 2 | Under the proposed new arrangements , booklets issued for the remainder of 1992/93 will contain only enough payslips to take employers to the end of the deduction year , and they will be accompanied by an explanatory leaflet . |
| 3 | A frequently cited example of this situation is a doctor 's surgery where the doctor may wish to take notes during a patient 's examination . |
| 4 | But we used to have to take notes during the lecture a and then write the lectures up afterwards . |
| 5 | You may find yourself having to take notes at a meeting , you may be a student or engaged in research , so here are some hints to help with your note-taking technique . |
| 6 | Always have a pen and paper by the phone so that you are able to take notes of the conversation . |
| 7 | He may be asked to take notes of the evidence . |
| 8 | Abbreviations : If you regularly have to take notes about the same subject , you should find it quite easy to develop your own abbreviations which will make you able to take those notes even more quickly . |
| 9 | The advice offered in Chapter 8 on more effective reading was that you should only begin to take notes after a first reading — when you 've grasped the structure and got the gist of the topic being dealt with . |
| 10 | Anyway I pretend to take ages in the toilet . |
| 11 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |
| 12 | Jeremy 's task is to take pictures of a potty professor 's crazy creations before any rival rags . |
| 13 | Trying to take pictures of the buildings without those intrusive TV aerials is almost impossible . |
| 14 | Photographers arrived to take pictures of the mail bags , and the Yorkshire TV still of Hannah inhabited the front pages for weeks . |
| 15 | The Palace hit back immediately by withdrawing the newspaper 's pass to take pictures of the family Christmas at Sandringham and warning other newspapers about upsetting the royals this Christmas . |
| 16 | ‘ Railway enthusiasts were given the chance to take pictures of the loco during the weekend and that was very popular . ’ |
| 17 | He also found a different sort of fame through his increasing interest in photography , when Life magazine commissioned him to take pictures of the wedding of his co-star Lynn Redgrave — who played his fiancée in Black Comedy — to producer-director John Clark in April 1967 . |
| 18 | REMEMBER to take pictures of the flower displays at your location this summer for a change of winning 1993 Location in Bloom competition . |
| 19 | Edis was , I learned , the only woman photographer commissioned to take pictures of the Western Front battlefields ( of women specifically ) , though other women who were out there anyway ( like Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm ) took pictures of themselves and their lives out there . |
| 20 | Photographers were asked to pay fifty pounds a head to take pictures of the troubled businessman , who 's facing theft and fraud charges . |
| 21 | ‘ Satellites can be programmed to take pictures at the customer 's request , ’ Dr Baker explained . |
| 22 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 23 | Others , including a senior civil servant in the education ministry , Eberhard Boning , see the unwillingness to take risks as a symptom of a more widespread complacency in German society ; the current generation of young people have experienced a combination of material well-being and an insecure and threatening world scene ; both factors detracting from incentive for personal achievement . |
| 24 | As we pointed out in Chapter 14 , profits are the carrot that encourages firms to take risks in a market economy . |
| 25 | Tax reforms are important , as is investment in infrastructure , particularly in public transport , such as British Rail and other forms of high-quality public transport , to take cars off the road . |
| 26 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 27 | The Mail on Sunday ( summer 1982 ) had more difficulty , since it aimed chiefly to take readers from the less buoyant middle market long dominated by the now declining Sunday Express . |
| 28 | ‘ is in a position to take steps under a programme arranged between the Canadian government and both Canadian national airlines for the provision of return air transportation to Canada for both the child and an accompanying adult . |
| 29 | Brenzone is a pleasant village with an easy , relaxed pace of life , an ideal base for those wishing to take trips on the lake or explore the lakeside towns . |
| 30 | At the same time the specialist advised her to take walks in the fresh air and sunshine and also to stop using foundation on her days off work . |