Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] take " in BNC.

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1 But then making life easier for the passenger is what BAA is all about , and to do so successfully takes careful planning .
2 As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock .
3 Here is now , left edge of the penalty area , moving towards the byline and doing well there to take it away from him but at the expense of a throw-in , that 's taken back to Alan , is twenty yards back from the byline and moving back out towards the touchline on the far side .
4 In June , with eleven months still to go , he was told by his doctor that his state of nervous exhaustion was such that if he did not immediately take a week 's rest at Chequers ( which with Parliament sitting inevitably involved a public announcement ) he would not survive without collapse until the end of July .
5 Blackwood 's did not normally take guests with neither luggage nor reservation , but losing one 's luggage and forgetting one 's hotel , and because of a British airline …
6 The Christian Democrats did not normally take the threats seriously , though with Strauss they were never sure .
7 Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting .
8 In my view the trial judge , dealing as he was with a most difficult and distressing case under the necessity to give a decision immediately , did not sufficiently take into account the degree of pressure required to constitute undue influence in the case of a patient in the position of Miss T. I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that there is abundant evidence which would justify this court in coming to the conclusion that she was subjected to the undue influence of her mother which vitiated her decision .
9 For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance .
10 Is Dr Campbell saying that Christ did not really take our sin upon himself but acted as if he did ?
11 Financial delegation started in Australia in the early 1970s , but did not really take off until 1983 when the Labour Party , committed to devolution , was elected .
12 There was an interesting experience at Leon which the women did not really take up afterwards .
13 Life insurance developed alongside , but did not really take on its modern form until the last decades of the eighteenth century .
14 The shares immediately jumped 40p , but did not really take off until American buying late in the session pushed them up 71p to end the day at 1,153p .
15 Dorothy Hardisty did not actually take over from Sir Charles Stead as executive director until the outbreak of war , but by then she had already made her presence felt as an able and energetic deputy .
16 Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use , I talked the matter over with my agent .
17 Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use .
18 These clubs did not necessarily take their sport in the spirit of fair play .
19 The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ .
20 Kenneth Clarke , who did not quite take the country by storm during the election , as predicted , has nonetheless been rewarded with one of the great offices of state : the Home Office .
21 Intercourse did not usually take place until marriage was promised , and marriage failed to take place usually because of job difficulties on the part of the man .
22 Louis IX did not apparently take any steps to prevent Henry from using an obsolete and illegal instrument .
23 I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done .
24 Direct action did not always take place under the aegis of CND .
25 Perhaps many other abbots had also been monks of the houses they eventually ruled , and Cnut did not always take much interest in their selection .
26 Comparisons between the incomes of age-groups , as in Figure 5.1 , give only very rough indications of differences in disposable financial resources , for they do not fully take into account differences in household composition .
27 However , such psychological analyses , concentrating upon the individual 's feelings , do not typically take into account the wider , ideological context .
28 Quantitative syntactic studies do not necessarily take as their data base recordings of live conversation .
29 These steps are needed but do not actually take advantage of the skills of bilingual pupils .
30 ‘ For your people do not usually take the body .
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