Example sentences of "they [verb] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 2 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 3 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 4 | There are rooms booked in the hotel if they want to take the opportunity of visiting relatives but I do n't expect them in Dublin until two days before we play . |
| 5 | If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative . |
| 6 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 7 | They want to take the matter to a public inquirey , in the hope that one way or another , their bacon will be saved . |
| 8 | They want to take the matter to a public inquiry , in the hope that one way or another , their bacon will be saved . |
| 9 | Before they lost Richard Biddle with a hamstring injury , the Quakers looked like they could actually match the ex-Premier League side and for a time they promised to take the lead . |
| 10 | They tried to take the cowboys on at their own game . |
| 11 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 12 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 13 | Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas . |
| 14 | When we got back , they 'd taken the carpet and some of the furniture away . |
| 15 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 16 | even though they 'd taken the car . |
| 17 | They seem to take the level from the amps without breaking up or sounding too middley . |
| 18 | Then , in the early stages of the second half , with Alan Shearer outstanding and well supported by Mike Newell , they threatened to take the game . |
| 19 | Trade having been done , they settled to take the meal , to eat , to indicate their good intentions . |
| 20 | In fact 12% developed it at puberty , 17% during pregnancy , 19% when they started taking the birth pill and 27% , at the onset of the menopause . |
| 21 | The couple decided against surgery but 15 years later the failure figure had dropped to only 20 pc and they decided to take the plunge . |
| 22 | As Macmillan later conceded , they decided to take the gamble early in 1955 of concluding a new alliance with Iraq under the umbrella of the emerging Baghdad Pact . |
| 23 | So they proceeded to take the game to Rangers with their elegant style . |
| 24 | The adventurers are only attacked if they try to vandalise the structure of the room , the piles of bones , or the seated figure , or if they try to take the wand from its skeletal hands . |
| 25 | Would n't mind so much but they kept taking the piss out I was wearing my socks . |
| 26 | They do take the bottoms off them . |
| 27 | They do take the bottoms of them Barry . |
| 28 | If they do take the hint and hang off the lid , take care that they are not knocked off when the nettles are being replenished for caterpillars that are still feeding . |
| 29 | Indeed if they fail to take the initiative they might as well abandon the people of the area to a grim fate . |
| 30 | I was being suppressed by Central Authorities for so long , but now they 've taken the lid off . |