Example sentences of "[verb] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stopped taking the Magnet and the Gem and the Boy 's Own Paper . |
| 2 | Since I stopped taking the chlorambucil , the lumps are beginning to return , which is just as well . |
| 3 | Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby . |
| 4 | She stopped taking the pills . |
| 5 | who laughing took the cash and went their ways . |
| 6 | ‘ Forget taking the train for an evening at the theatre or the weekend family excursion into the country . |
| 7 | In view of the stamp duty implications , the wife should consider taking the conveyance herself and subsequently conveying to herself and the new husband . |
| 8 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 9 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 10 | The painstaking steps towards releasing a captive barn owl into the wild involve taking the chick from the parent at the age of four to five weeks . |
| 11 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 12 | Come 3 o'clock on a saturday I say taking the piss out of history goes . |
| 13 | Yeah I know our Lorraine has took the phone over . |
| 14 | The former sprint champion , who built a career on the use of illegal substances , did not take part in the meeting , of course , after he was caught taking the tablets for a second time . |
| 15 | WOOD Group Fire Protection managing director Gerald Hocking was caught taking the weight off his feet on a trip to Cincinnati . |
| 16 | Kelly and a friend had enjoyed taking the dogs for walks on every day of their holiday in Dunoon . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Instead , I propose taking the logic of generic concentration as far as it can go , with a degree which would study , in detail , a single genre , poetry . |
| 19 | ZZAP ! to date has taken the mickey out of everyone without being prejudiced against anyone or anything . |
| 20 | From two of its existing operations — Software Sciences , which produces the CHAMPS hotel management system and Datasolve , which manages other companies ' data facilities — the new company has taken the name Data Sciences . |
| 21 | The group has taken the title ‘ QLG a National Group of Law Firms ’ with the title derived from the quality law group idea . |
| 22 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 23 | The number and variations of incidents in ‘ Hamlet ’ are primarily all connected with the incident of Hamlet 's hatred and eventual murder of his uncle , who has taken the throne after killing his ( Hamlet 's ) father Even though at times these may seem irrelevant to this theme , all tie in with Hamlet himself . |
| 24 | More recent work from Samir Amin , Rana Kabbani and Linda Nochlin has taken the consciousness-raising further . |
| 25 | In his chairman 's statement , Terry Shand explains why the group has taken the opportunity to overhaul the presentation of the annual report and accounts and to include operating and financial reviews . |
| 26 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 27 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 28 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 29 | IT IS HIS SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND HAS TAKEN THE DAY OFF . |
| 30 | A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song . |