Example sentences of "they [verb] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they tried to take the bloody ticket off me . |
| 2 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 3 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 4 | They 've done it , they 've taken the outside tables away . |
| 5 | And they 've taken the free kick quickly and tried to take full advantage of the situation and the referee has said you ca n't do that . |
| 6 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 7 | They had taken the strictest measures to ensure that the Project remained not merely ‘ invisible ’ in terms of its security profile , but that , in the unlikely event of sabotage , there would be copies of everything . |
| 8 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 9 | What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong ! |
| 10 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 11 | It had decreed that many years ago , and if they had taken the appropriate rent rises in steps and phased them in , this sudden large rise , which is causing hardship , would not have happened . |
| 12 | Any member of the secret society who takes public office or joins the police should declare they have taken the Masonic oath to counter , he told MPs . |
| 13 | They have taken the innovative step of basing their enantioselective sensor on a modified cyclodextrin . |
| 14 | : The state can forbid persons to give evidence on subjects specified by it if at any time in their lives they have taken the Official Secrets Oath . |
| 15 | Neither of them had taken the slightest notice of my movements , except that Mr Parsons was already in my empty chair , and the two of them , with Ewen Mackay 's flask of whisky now standing between them , were talking about salmon fishing . |