Example sentences of "we [verb] taken [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think in truth erm er we 'd taken a weekend off and er to go to Venice , there was a big er art exhibition on and Anne wanted to see that .
2 And er I wrote to the No we 'd taken the decision at the Portobello branch th that Sunday that we support When we supported the executive decision , the strike for our just demand you see .
3 We 've taken a cottage a couple of miles from the slopes . ’
4 We 've taken a bit of stick and rightly so because we 've had a bad week and had two disappointing performances .
5 I believe we 've taken a decision on that for the health conference , last time round .
6 We 've taken a number of factors into account one of which is the lower occupancy levels at Beaver Vale .
7 we we 've taken the contract up with the Chad , have n't we ?
8 I am pleased to say we 've taken the trading margin there from five percent to fourteen point two percent in the last four years .
9 We 've taken the issue up on a number of occasions and some of the younger men agree that perhaps things should change , but the older ones are adamant about what they regard as women 's work .
10 We 've taken the canal for granted in the past , but now we 're looking forward .
11 Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted .
12 We 've taken the carpet out already .
13 Over the years , we 've taken the risk to increase the court 's costs , erm , where we 've got agreed pro er , principles , and we 've b we 've been able to go to the courts and they 've agreed with us , for instance , standard fees for overloaded vehicle cases , we charge seventy pounds a time .
14 We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that .
15 We had taken a taxi to the Sharia el-Azhar from where the buses depart .
16 We had taken a London business colleague out who had never fished before ; the sort of man who had done everything and knew everything .
17 Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles .
18 ‘ We gave away two stupid goals but still would have got something from the game if we had taken the chances we created . ’
19 We could n't have left a tap on , as we had taken the precaution of turning the water off at the mains , so where could it be coming from ?
20 We establish order and think we are in control ; then Nu throws over the table and breaks what we have taken a lifetime to construct .
21 For the purposes of the plan , we have taken a fire as our incident .
22 We have taken a step backward , ’ Ryan said — and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November .
23 Mr Ward said : ‘ Something has to be done here as we have taken a step backwards .
24 That having taken this momentous decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we have taken a step of the most important step towards economic monetary union from which there can be no turning back .
25 Since that point we have taken a number of steps to reduce students ' reliance on benefits .
26 Again we have taken a lead .
27 ‘ The problem of drug taking is on the increase and we have taken every precaution to prevent it ’ .
28 We have taken every step to conceal its true identity , deleted names , places , and personal details , especially information which might identify the policemen and women with whom we worked , and even , following the example of others , employed security measures to protect the field notes ( Holdaway 1983 : 13 ) .
29 We have taken an option to purchase at the at the cost as agreed , which was the problem last time
30 In interpreting the studies by Vonk and by Garnham & Oakhill we have taken an effect of gender cue to indicate name mapping and one of congruity with bias to indicate role mapping .
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