Example sentences of "we [vb past] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 32 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 33 | Like everyone else , ICI was losing significant sums of money on petrochemicals and we had to take a very hard look indeed at where we were going . |
| 34 | Erm well in the early days we had to take a kiddies bible school |
| 35 | so we had to take a hundred and twenty five pound off what we owed |
| 36 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 37 | If you knew what we know , you 'd realise we had to take the action we did . ’ |
| 38 | We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off |
| 39 | We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off |
| 40 | We felt we had to take the initiative and hope the Chlorine Information Service will prompt other organisations to follow our lead . ’ |
| 41 | We had to take the photographs , he had to go on the pitch , did n't he ? |
| 42 | we had to take the monkey shopping , did n't we take the monkey shopping ? |
| 43 | ‘ One was we had to take an international outlook rather than being a purely British company . |
| 44 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 47 | We had taken a London business colleague out who had never fished before ; the sort of man who had done everything and knew everything . |
| 48 | We had taken a taxi to the Sharia el-Azhar from where the buses depart . |
| 49 | ‘ We gave away two stupid goals but still would have got something from the game if we had taken the chances we created . ’ |
| 50 | 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 ? |
| 51 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 52 | Newry manager Terry Nicholson said : ‘ We would have been in the game with a better chance if we had taken the two chances that came our way early on . |
| 53 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |