Example sentences of "they take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 2 | For example , in stimulating the development of community formularies , or in setting indicative budgets , do they take a broad view of cost ( beyond the price of the medicines themselves ) and do they consider the relative effectiveness of medicines ? |
| 3 | To cut a long story short , next time music retailers start moaning about the recession why do n't they take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves who actually feeds them ? |
| 4 | Or should they take a hard look at themselves , try to learn something from what had happened , make the necessary changes and hope to attract more lesbians ? |
| 5 | Sometimes parents are very upset and angry , but only very occasionally do they take the extreme course of making girls leave home . |
| 6 | ( In no state where they are evaluated do they take the same value . ) |
| 7 | They took a winding dirt alley that led through the back of the village between houses and outhouses . |
| 8 | It was a rough match with five bookings but Lazio will not be complaining — they took a million pounds in receipts . |
| 9 | But they won a fair fight and they took a tremendous lot of trouble and they really did a very good campaign , there 's no question about that at all . |
| 10 | They took a small boutique on the Left Bank , where hitherto there had been only antique shops , correctly recognizing that the little street , Rue des Saints Pères , was full of ‘ Laura Ashley spirit ’ . |
| 11 | But last summer they took a deep breath , and a brave risk . |
| 12 | Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time . |
| 13 | They took a motor-boat taxi to the end of the Grand Canal and crossed the busy Piazzale Roma , with its juddering buses and crowds of pedestrians , to one of the multi-storey garages . |
| 14 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 15 | Yes , said Surkov , they took a great interest in my work ; and Rozanov nodded . |
| 16 | ‘ They took a close look at the ball whichever side was in the field . |
| 17 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
| 18 | And certainly they took a casual attitude to vegetables , clearly regarding them as very second-rate fodder and not really to be taken seriously . |
| 19 | COLCHESTER confirmed their position as favourites to win the Vauxhall FA Trophy when they took a 3–0 lead in the first leg of their semi-final with Conference rivals Macclesfield , at Layer Road on Saturday , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 20 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 21 | BRITAIN 'S dressage riders made history today when they took a European Championship team silver medal in Lipica , Slovenia . |
| 22 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 23 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 24 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 25 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |
| 26 | Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach . |
| 27 | For example , the German authorities in the 1960s sought to offset upward pressure on the deutschmark ; as a result they took a relaxed view of the development of a foreign deutschmark bond market and German residents ' purchases ( which entailed a capital outflow ) . |
| 28 | They took a special interest in the girls ' curriculum and , in keeping with the ‘ equal but different ’ philosophy , tended to promote the study of domestic subjects . |
| 29 | In 1969 they took a hard line . |
| 30 | They took a double blanket … rolled him in it like you roll a papoose on a cradle board … put where there were mules , not in soldier tent . ’ |