Example sentences of "take [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I could take about the philosophy which is behind Warnock ?
2 If you start to feel too warm you can always take off the hat and gloves .
3 ‘ I did n't realise if I agreed they would take off the old mouthpiece and put on a new one .
4 Come here and let me take off the spell . ’
5 Even if it were possible to identify a certain causal agent inside someone 's head we certainly can not take off the top of the skull and mend it !
6 The Marshal crossed the sunny fore-court towards the shadow of the stone archway and into his office , where he could take off the dark glasses which he always had to wear when the sun was out .
7 You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ?
8 If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on .
9 I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds .
10 The bottom half of the page is how much she gets for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , but before we find out she 's got to spend , what we 've got to do is take off the policy fee .
11 Your balls are well separated , I mean , the best I can do is take off the yellow , then I can make the .
12 He really needs to get to see and take off the stuff that .
13 Better take off the headphones .
14 Er … would you by any chance have a room I could take for the night ?
15 Others besides the agency girl must have seen them leaving together ; she wondered how long it would take for the news to reach Pete .
16 They wish to create a general atmosphere of distrust of the measures we have taken and will take for the further democratisation of the country . "
17 But how long would it take for the army , the S A S or whatever to go in and erm clean up the situation as it were ?
18 Generally the more information requested the longer it will take for the purchaser and its solicitors to review .
19 Teachers and librarians need to know how long it will take for the teacher or librarian and pupils to learn how to use the program .
20 How long will it take for the population to double , i.e. when do we have to feed twice as many people ?
21 Never in my life , he wrote , have I known so exactly what step to take after the step I am in the process of taking , and then what step to take after the step I will take after the step I am in the process of taking .
22 His contention is that much of the slump in mainframe revenues has been mis-attributed to downsizing mania whereas the recession should take of the blame — delay in large capital projects gives the impression that mainframes are in more trouble then they actually are , he suggests .
23 This means that ‘ The French system of detailed target planning involves … the toleration of agreements between firms to fix the share each will take of the planned expansion ’ ( Cohen , 1969 , pp. 71–2 ) .
24 ‘ And how long did this operation take under the old screw-jack system ? ’
25 When he announces his side tonight following training , it is safe to assume that McGrath will include perhaps as many as thirteen of the players who won the All That 's the kind of experience they will take into the match — and perhaps may yet parade in the Ulster final .
26 But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ .
27 It says it will now take until the middle of next year to get a chip out .
28 SMP machines will take until the fourth quarter .
29 Scarborough manager Ray McHale said Hewitt 's wrist was in plaster and it would take until the middle of next month for the injury to heal .
30 Police are treating his death as suspicious , but it may take until the end of the week before forensic examination is complete .
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