Example sentences of "they take [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a half doze Jane saw Christopher and Francis emerge from the barn , go to the kitchen and re-emerge with the sack of flour , which they took to the barn ! |
| 2 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 3 | After killing a number of traders and native policemen , and an elder who had counselled prudence , they took to the hills , where a detachment of the King 's African Rifles surprised them and drove them out , with about twenty casualties . |
| 4 | The mortally wounded Aenarion clambered into the saddle of his dying dragon and they took to the air on their last flight . |
| 5 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 6 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 7 | George was pushed from her mind as they took to the tiny space allocated for dancing in Margaret Forrester 's front room . |
| 8 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
| 9 | So together with the fire brigade , they took to the water to steer them onto safer land . |
| 10 | They took to the boxes immediately . |
| 11 | " Hey , " he said , " was it — are you the guy who made those commercials , the ones they took off the air ? " |
| 12 | But the resistance people , allowed to keep the arms they took from the Iraqis , have their own network in the police and the army . |
| 13 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 14 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 15 | Ace 's eyes were full of mocking laughter as they took in the discomfited expression on the journalist 's face . |
| 16 | The sharp black eyes gleamed with interest as they took in the situation at once . |
| 17 | They managed their conference over coffee , which they took in the lounge sitting in the chairs by the window . |
| 18 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |
| 19 | Mr the percentages which you have quoted , are they taken from the figures which the County Surveyors has proposed in his table two , attached to his paper ? |
| 20 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 21 | But , outclassed and outnumbered , most will be destroyed as soon as they take to the air ; and if they do not take to the air they do not matter . |
| 22 | They take to the waters here and |
| 23 | Roads Minister Kenneth Carlisle said : ‘ If candidates had a more thorough knowledge of the Highway Code and other safety matters they would be more prepared when they take to the roads by themselves . ’ |
| 24 | Oxford against cambridge they take to the River at two |
| 25 | It 's hoped the video will be distributed around young drivers so they can see what can happen if they take to the road without thought for safety . |
| 26 | This weekend a hundred thousand spectators are expected to watch more than eighty balloons as they take to the skies . |
| 27 | ANL organisers say it is up to individual members whether they take to the streets to fight racism , but Safina Hussain has little doubt about what action is needed . |
| 28 | Er , the rest of it they take for the er to keep the breeders ' going keep . |
| 29 | If there is no spouse , they take in the following order , brothers and sisters of the half blood ; grandparents in equal shares ; uncles and aunts , who are brothers and sisters of the whole blood of a parent of the intestate ; uncles and aunts who are brothers or sisters of the half blood of a parent of the intestate . |
| 30 | In most cases they do not ; they take in the element they require already compounded into some other form . |