Example sentences of "take them in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then have to try and unravel it and , in so doing , will find that it takes them in all sorts of different places until at the end they find a small present . |
| 2 | That 's seconded , nice to know we have a straight choice , as you favour , we 'll take them in reverse order . |
| 3 | I was going to say can we take them in small groups ? |
| 4 | It 's like all good things to come , I do n't like to count my chickens , so I 'd rather not , not the little memorandums say , oh you 've got another X million , if only we could take them in this year . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 6 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 7 | Er people are very very good actually at enduring them and er and taking them in some ways for granted . |
| 8 | She took them in unsteady hands stained with grave marks , and peered with suspicion at the manufacturer 's name . |
| 9 | The person taking the goods must have taken them in good faith without notice of the agent 's lack of authority . |
| 10 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 11 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 12 | You 're only meant to take them in small quantities now . |
| 13 | And er the police used to take them in black marias some of them . |
| 14 | They are very much a two-career couple and , although the work overlaps from time to time , they have two very distinct careers , which take them in different directions . |