Example sentences of "taking the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 2 | After taking the cigarette ( an important prop in this speech ) Arthur changes tack . |
| 3 | Thereafter , prune when you see long growths taking the goodness out of the tree ; in late summer cut back all whippy shoots to 4in , then in February or March cut back again to two buds . |
| 4 | Not only must you spray regularly , but it 's a good idea to vary the brand of spray that you use ; the nasty wee beasties soon develop resistance if you use the same one over and over again , and that 's something worth taking the time to avoid . |
| 5 | If flying across country is not practical and you are local soaring , it is better to practise moving from cloud to cloud or thermal to thermal without taking the climbs to any great height . |
| 6 | First perhaps , try taking the photograph with a hand-held camera . |
| 7 | TAKING THE ROAD |
| 8 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |
| 9 | Taking the word ‘ mythologies ’ in its usual ‘ technical ’ sense , Scobie comments : |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm taking the bike to the village . ’ |
| 11 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 12 | Mandy Wainwright played exceptionally well in taking the middle set 6–3 from 142 ranked Nana Miyagi from Japan ; whilst Joanne Ward typically made the most of her opportunity by extending Cristina Tessi to 7–5 6–1 . |
| 13 | Firstly Olga Morozova makes a point about taking the ball early . |
| 14 | Among the steps they perform are the traditional ‘ hauling up the anchor , paying out the rope , hoisting the flag , going on lookout after climbing the rigging ’ and , of course , ‘ taking the salute ’ — a little haphazardly . |
| 15 | A choreographer should translate this definition into dance terms thus : taking the moods , emotions and actions expressed , understood and observed by everyone in general and using natural gestures when applying the rules of choreographic grammar without trying to express them in any other way . |
| 16 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 17 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 18 | Well , they do n't literally explode , but they are gusseted and expand dramatically , taking the sack from 60 to 75 litres . |
| 19 | This lies on Craig Yr Ysfa , taking the groove between Amadeus and Agrippa and was climbed with N. Bonnet and C. Fletcher . |
| 20 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 21 | That is why , instead of taking the weakness of his desires to himself , Stavrogin continues in figurative , musing vein , sad and free , very beautiful in context : ‘ You can cross a river on a tree-trunk , but not on a chip of wood . ’ |
| 22 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
| 23 | Leavis defined critical discussion as taking the form , ‘ This is so , is n't it ? ’ expecting the answer , ‘ yes , but … ’ ( though never , ‘ I very much doubt it ’ or ‘ No , in thunder ! ’ ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At the door the man taking the money was dirtying patrons ' hands with one of those rubber stamps no-one thought existed outside student discos . |
| 26 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 27 | ‘ If the people in Hong Kong were white , ’ he asked , ‘ would you be taking the same view ? ’ |
| 28 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 29 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 30 | He was asked whether he thought he would get back his record for taking the most Test wickets . |