Example sentences of "[coord] do [pers pn] take " in BNC.

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1 The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ?
2 Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ?
3 What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ?
4 Or do you take the assessment which Mr has done which er indicates that they are all of equal er merit or rank ?
5 Did he behave like a guest or did he take his jacket off and sit in front of the fire like one of the family ? ’
6 Or did you take it back ?
7 W will that be this year or does it take much longer ?
8 Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions .
9 Nor do they take lightly his abuse of Mitbestimmung , the hallowed German practice of giving workers a voice in public companies by setting aside for them nearly half the seats on supervisory boards .
10 The methods used , it is argued , fail to recognise their different cultural background , nor do they take account of the different needs of children who at home speak languages other than English .
11 Nor did he take colleague John McEnroe to task for abusing the Swiss non-playing captain , hitting balls at their team and gesturing at them with his racket .
12 GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks .
13 The satyāgrahi does not violate moral duty , nor does he take advantage of the weakness or vulnerability of his opponent who is the recipient of his actions .
14 It does not therefore have commercial-type balance sheet which shows the value of those assets , nor does it take a ‘ depreciation ’ or ‘ leasing ’ charge for the use of those assets into its income and expenditure account .
15 The difference is critical , since total productive consumption has a relationship to unproductive consumption , whilst the Harrod equation is indiscriminate as to the nature of consumption ; nor does it take into account the rate of profit .
16 I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said .
17 Nor does it take account of the fact that it can be consistent with the status of agency for an intermediary to be empowered to retain the proceeds of sale above a specified price .
18 And do we take ourselves and our responsibilities so seriously that our worries are transmitted to our offspring ?
19 And do they take them off you ?
20 W w would people go out of their way to seek to find someone who was particularly skilled and with building a load and did they take
21 And did she take her cup out ?
22 And did you take him in ?
23 She said anyway she was away to make a wee cup of tea and did I take sugar ?
24 And does she take sugar ?
25 But do I take delight in pushing you down , making you worse ?
26 It sounds like a very violent attack , but does it take us any further ? ’
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