Example sentences of "they [vb past] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That gentile foster parents were liable to imbue youngsters with their own values , however hard they tried to take a neutral line , was undeniable , but the alternative , to turn away children because there were not enough Jewish homes for them to go to , was rejected out of hand by the RCM 's ruling council . |
| 6 | and they tried to take the bloody ticket off me . |
| 7 | They tried to take the cowboys on at their own game . |
| 8 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 9 | They 'd taken a ballot and the members had agreed . |
| 10 | no my wallet and some one handed it in and they 'd taken a fiver out of it , they 'd gone , oh , oh |
| 11 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 12 | They 'd taken no notice of Thérèse reporting that the Bishop expected only a simple meal . |
| 13 | When we got back , they 'd taken the carpet and some of the furniture away . |
| 14 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | even though they 'd taken the car . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Some of the secondary girls considered such goings on beneath their dignity but it was n't long before they began to take an interest and help out in the " Ox-farm " . |
| 22 | But when they began to take an interpretive attitude toward their conventional practices , the situation became much more complicated . |
| 23 | Trade having been done , they settled to take the meal , to eat , to indicate their good intentions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So they proceeded to take the game to Rangers with their elegant style . |
| 29 | Would n't mind so much but they kept taking the piss out I was wearing my socks . |
| 30 | ‘ They did take a dip last weekend , ’ she admitted . |