Example sentences of "take their [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a few hundred enthusiasts were all that was needed to make these dirty little flying mice a protected species , free to flit and , well , leave droppings , wherever it takes their fancy under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 2 | Moving round the circle , the teacher faces each pupil in turn and takes their hand in a special handshake . |
| 3 | Each felt the need to study and take their work to a more intensive level following a year painting together from the life model at Piers Ottey 's studio . |
| 4 | These clubs did not necessarily take their sport in the spirit of fair play . |
| 5 | Next week some laureates will take their campaign to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva , where their appeal is expected to be backed by other peace prize winners including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 6 | Thus large firms employ twice as many graduates , but perhaps more importantly they can take their pick of the best graduates from the best universities . |
| 7 | They would take their chance for the sale price of $380 million . |
| 8 | Multinational logging companies must also take their share of the blame for poor forest-management strategies in many developing countries , especially in Southeast Asia , where little heed is paid to conserving the remaining forest or to the effect of logging and heavy machinery on the soils . |
| 9 | They could take their money to the USA : about $27 billion left the country between 1976 and 1984 . |
| 10 | There was never any doubt that the shops would take their name from the labels in the clothes , which , it was hoped , loyal customers would recognize . |
| 11 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 12 | The inevitable epidemics will take their toll in the camps . |
| 13 | ‘ They have no conception of any technology beyond level three , so we can take their account of a magical transposition less than literally . |
| 14 | Then they will take their place on the ship at Tilbury among the food , plants and livestock cargo . |
| 15 | A They would take their place in the order of succession after Princes William and Harry and their issue . |
| 16 | The prestige audience would be won over by movies that could take their place alongside the middle-class novel and play . |
| 17 | Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important . |
| 18 | Increased leisure opportunities have meant that people can take their leisure during the week and leave Sunday as a day of rest . |
| 19 | Asked about grammar , the panelists strongly resisted confusions of singular and plural , as in ‘ anyone who is n't happy can take their grievance to the arbitrators ’ . |
| 20 | In public , McFarlane and North often gave the impression of patient negotiation with politicians who did not take their view on the contras . |
| 21 | Your screen and external devices , like modems , may take their power from the PC , but it will come directly from the PC 's power supply unit . |
| 22 | Chris Waddle 's club , who this week took their spending for the season so far to £14 million by signing the Nantes player Didier Deschamps , have signed agreements with four players which give them priority should they wish to sign any of them . |
| 23 | CAMPAIGNING nuclear workers took their message to the top earlier this month when a party of 48 travelled to lobby MPs at Westminster . |
| 24 | The students at Holy Cross took their share in the very considerable proof-reading , for we included collects , epistles and gospels , which had not been done except by reference in the earlier Burmese prayer books . |
| 25 | ABC are everywhere suits and irony hold sway ( Pet Shop Boys ) while Wet Wet Wet took their name from a lyric in Scritti 's ‘ Gettin' , Havin' and Holdin' . |
| 26 | The Maronites , who took their name from a fifth-century Syrian hermit , had emerged from the great division in the Byzantine Church over the single divine will of Christ . |
| 27 | His family took their name from a manor near Sheriff Hutton and held land within the lordship . |
| 28 | His family took their name from a manor near Sheriff Hutton and held land within the lordship . |
| 29 | The Tvdohlavi took their name from the Tvrdosijni ( strong backbone ) , a group of painters from 1920s cafe society who had met to explore the new artistic style of Cubism . |
| 30 | The distinctively marked Appaloosa ponies — the ‘ spotted horses ’ — took their name from the Palouse Indians , but were especially bred by the Nez Perce . |