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

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1 They 're to take during the day .
2 I 've given you some other special ones to take during the day just to settle your nerves
3 As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves .
4 He is using your partner as divine sandpaper to take off the rough edges .
5 She was triumphant , and slid the padlock out of the iron loops , intending to take off the collar , but Midnight said :
6 So she eased the car forward a few inches more — but forgot to take off the lock .
7 The Canadians ' ship then took 2,000 local Russian miners and their families to Archangel , returning nine days later on 2 September to take off the men of the Edmonton Regiment and Saskatoon Light Infantry who , with sappers and some Norwegians , had destroyed the mines .
8 It is a good idea to take off the grating occasionally and clean out any debris .
9 All went fine , and we were very chuffed and thrilled , until the producer of the show started to say , ‘ Well , of course , you acted with belted raincoats and the berets and it 's all very sweet , but maybe we could start to take off the belted raincoat , and leave perhaps just the fishnet tights … . ’
10 The wisest course is to take off the bud and burn it — you will not get a bloom anyway .
11 Some of its work was routine , designed to take off the shoulders of the King part of the administrative burden of the realm .
12 If you can find out when they feed you will be able to take off the cover at that time and watch them feeding .
13 So now Carol 's going to use damp pads damp cotton wool to take off the cleanser .
14 Carol 's uses , using sponges to take off the gel .
15 Elemental , annotated or operational bills may be of greater value but the most reliable system is to take off the quantities from the drawings .
16 In the strong-loam belt of Suffolk — the heavy-land districts — however , very narrow stetches of two yards and upwards were necessary effectively to take off the surface water .
17 His blue eyes implored her to take off the gag .
18 It 's easy to take off the outside when when you come to take the inside ones it 's quite difficult .
19 She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite .
20 ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot .
21 It 's time to take off the dinosaur suits and start talking real business .
22 He had forgotten to take off the white coveralls .
23 Then at some time during the day , he or she has cause to turn their head sharply to the left , or attempt to take off the jacket .
24 He paused , put the rod on the table , and began to take off the cloth .
25 Er to , to work the truth out of things , one has to think what Adam , Adam had lost in the beginning , what Jesus had to gain back , cos according to the Corinthian 's letter that erm Jesus came back to buy back what Adam had lost and if you can work out what Adam had lost in the , in the first place , then you can see the point why you 're put on the earth and you can see that it , that he , he was given a commandment not to take off the , the tree of kno knowledge written by were n't he ?
26 Well , we jus , went to take off the C D then
27 I 'm going to take off the two nine one seven , are n't I ?
28 Indonesia 's President Suharto , a good Javanese , may ruefully be recalling the legend these days as he ponders over what attitude to take about the Gulf war .
29 Casting will take place at the Carlton Highland Hotel on Friday , March 5 , and the successful applicants will appear on screen later in the year to take about the cinema .
30 It was even too hard to take for the traditionally cynical press .
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