Example sentences of "take [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sales channel is merely the route that goods take through the selling process from a supplier to a customer . |
| 2 | This time he imitates a man hanging from a tree , which Barat and Haimet take for the ghost of their hanged father , drop their booty and flee . |
| 3 | There are differences for women depending on marital status and the greater share of responsibility many women take for the care of children . |
| 4 | The intention is that the decisions that health authorities take about the placing of contracts should reflect the views of GPs and also the health authority 's assessment of the district 's local health priorities . |
| 5 | It remains an orientation that Britons not only find congenial but also take as the source of a certain pride . |
| 6 | The first thing you 'd have to do , is take off the policy fee . |
| 7 | However , in studies of children who have been adopted , the adopted children take after the weight characteristics of their biological parents , rather than after their adopted parents . |
| 8 | Take of the electric . |
| 9 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 10 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 11 | So , those are the actions that we actually take with the air conditioning itself . |
| 12 | To do otherwise , would be to sit back and watch the raison d'etre of conglomeration being reversed by a misplaced process of reregulation ; that would be to give with one hand , and take with the other . |
| 13 | C D T you have to do four sheets which you take into the exam . |
| 14 | Take into the room temperature and take the covers off . |
| 15 | 8.2 To take Lease following disclaimer If at any time during the Term the Tenant ( being an individual ) shall become bankrupt or ( being a company ) shall enter into liquidation and the trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator shall disclaim this Lease the Guarantor shall if the Landlord shall by notice within [ 60 ] days after such disclaimer so require take from the Landlord a Lease of the Premises for the residue of the Contractual Term which would have remained had there been no disclaimer at the Rent then being paid under this Lease and subject to the same covenants and terms as in this Lease ( except that the Guarantor shall not be required to procure that any other person is made a party to the Lease as guarantor ) such new Lease to take effect from the date of such disclaimer and in such case the Guarantor shall pay the costs of such new Lease and execute and deliver to the Landlord a counterpart of it This provision is inserted to avoid the fact that a disclaimer of a lease by a trustee in bankruptcy or a liquidator will give rise to the release of the guarantor from the date of the disclaimer . |
| 16 | If the reader has more knowledge than the writer has supposed , then he will tend to disregard the discourse that has been plotted in the act of writing and simply take from the text whatever best suits his purpose . |
| 17 | Those of you who know me from my earlier scribblings in PFK will be well aware of my feelings in relation to our responsibilities to do our best to maintain and care for the delicate marine creatures we take from the wild . |
| 18 | Out of context , even readers devoted to the Victorian novel may have difficulty in identifying that house , for they take from the novel that contains it a very different impression , one that has less to do with idyllic life than with decay and death . |
| 19 | At the end of the day , we were glad to put our feet up outside the Ski Roc bar and take in the charm and friendly atmosphere . |
| 20 | For the purposes of this discussion , however , several examples can be cited to illustrate the importance of sub-cultural factors to the use of services : attitudes towards education influence the expectations as well as the interest which parents take in the school progress of their children . |
| 21 | I just wanted to stroll around the place , and take in the night air . ’ |
| 22 | Take in the night spots ? |
| 23 | In most cases they do not ; they take in the element they require already compounded into some other form . |
| 24 | Kangaroos occupy the roles that antelope and deer take in the rest of the world , with species adapted to grazing and browsing in grasslands and bush . |
| 25 | But ca n't could n't you perhaps develop then the the er stage door club could do more perhaps more meals and maybe erm have tickets that take in the cost of a meal so you actually . |
| 26 | These take in the law ( Brothers in Law , 1956 ) , the redbrick universities ( Lucky Jim , 1957 ) , the foreign office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO , 1958 ) and the trade unions ( I 'm All Right Jack , 1959 ) . |
| 27 | As Joel Barnett , Wilson 's Chief Secretary to the Treasury , later described ‘ the quaintly titled social contract ’ , ‘ the only give and take in the contract was that the government gave and the unions took ’ . |
| 28 | This can then be followed by a semantically ‘ empty ’ verb such as give or take in the passive . |
| 29 | As we take in the tale of this encounter , which clearly did him a power of good , we have to translate the euphemisms . |
| 30 | Earlier we spoke of the selective interests that disciplines take in the world . |