Example sentences of "they [vb mod] take [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 2 | They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent . |
| 3 | Nicknames assumed ( and still assume ) many forms — they can be logical or illogical — some describing physical peculiarities , others mental or moral qualities ; they may take the form of animal names , being thus descriptive of appearance or disposition . |
| 4 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 5 | They may take the form of disrupted relationships or the more obvious one of problematic or bizarre sexual behaviour . |
| 6 | There as you probably know are various groups who feel that they , ought to erm , they ought to take a stand because they felt that Port Meadow actually the character of Port Meadow was changing and ultimately the Council I think agreed with them , that something should be done and this was the action that was taken . |
| 7 | But the Hintons , deluged with complaining phone calls and threts of legal action from customers say they must take the matter further |
| 8 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 9 | Even then , he believed there was hope and persuaded her that they should take a holiday together . |
| 10 | Maybe they should take a leaf out of horse racing 's book and introduce starting stalls. : - . |
| 11 | So in my opinion , they should take a leaf out of the books of people in industry and pay both management and staff on results . |
| 12 | Dzerzhinsky stressed that local authorities should collaborate with them , but at the centre he was adamant that they should take no part in transport decisions that had any , political implications . |
| 13 | Councillors say while it appears the situation is a fait accompli , they feel they should take every opportunity to save the home . |
| 14 | They should take the opportunity to re-state ( without condemnation ) the Christian principle of permanence in married love , the possibilities of achieving it , with a firm indication of the social evils that issue from its abandonment . |
| 15 | ‘ But they should take the edge off the pain . |
| 16 | Surely , if a Member of Parliament takes a G M B sponsorship they should take the whip that we give and follow our rules and not go against us by going by constituent . |
| 17 | The authority to issue cattle vouchers enhanced the power and status of a headman , but many of those assigned to this task could not see why they should take the trouble to inquire into the origins of the cattle concerned . |
| 18 | They should not take the attitude that ‘ risk management is someone else 's business ’ ; rather , they should take the initiative . |
| 19 | ‘ If history is not to be repeated , they should take the lead now and not merely be content to wait and see what might happen . ’ |
| 20 | The bad normative applications of evolutionary theory to ethics which were made by Spencer and others also , of course , involved a lot of bad evolutionary theory : if normative lessons could be drawn from Darwinian theory , there is certainly no reason why they should take the form suggested by Social Darwinists . |
| 21 | They 'll take no profit from this deal to get Russian children back to school . |
| 22 | but the er , at the joint meeting of course they 're all a bit subdued , cos they 're coming onto to well what 'll happened , cos I 've work up there , they 're much more gregarious than the bloke down here , so they 'll take the stuff out of especially when , so we 'll be doing it . |
| 23 | If you stare them down , they 'll take the challenge . |
| 24 | Er they have well just the same as er some of these weight reducers. they 'll take the weight down but look at the side effects . |
| 25 | Er erm July , er June is erm , according to Chris 's seasonality figures , normally about erm twelve percent higher than the mean , erm so if they 'll take the mean at about , at being about three hundred and fifty , you know we 're looking at a figure of somewhere just over four hundred for July , as opposed to last July which was erm I think five er four hundred and ninety four complaints in the month , so it 's very unlikely that that output figure will continue going up next month . |
| 26 | The cars get ripped off , if they park they 'll take the car . |
| 27 | Then they might take a bit more care instead of allowing young girls to roam the streets like common prostitutes ! |
| 28 | For example , in the laboratory , experimental subjects might be asked to role-play in hypothetical future situations , in order to discover under what types of circumstance they might Take the Role of the Other . |
| 29 | His mother , from Newquay , Cornwall , complained to the police and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children but was told they could take no action . |
| 30 | I do n't know which firm they were from , but as well as stopping people from hurting each other , they helped the more diminutive among the crowd on to the stage if they had problems getting free of the moshpit so that they could take a dive . |