Example sentences of "i take [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Mystified , I took off the small velvet beret I was wearing and , miraculously , the vast hall was quiet , and I learned that the chant had been Cha-peau ! |
2 | I took off the earrings and went to find a phone box . |
3 | I took off the yellow waistcoat with its white lining and hung it on a hanger , and I took off my shoes , but rather like George I still felt myself to be on duty , so I switched off the light and lay on top of the bedclothes watching the black Canadian land slide by , while the free northern show went on above for hours in the sky . |
4 | I took off the stupid visor and placed it behind the conifer . |
5 | It 's bits I took off the sheets is that , that I er |
6 | And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains . |
7 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
8 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
9 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |
10 | ‘ I took to the vice ports in revenge . ’ |
11 | ‘ Yes , that money that I took to the taxi rank this morning . |
12 | ‘ Final details are still to be agreed , but I took along the usual samples of your work and it looks as though she 'll want to incorporate feature tiles and maybe also a patterned frieze . ’ |
13 | Actually I 've got a , I 've got a brilliant picture that I took outside the train . |
14 | The line I took with the manager was that , as a composer of music for films , I really needed to see equal commitment all along the picture beam to the public . |
15 | ’ It wis when I cam hame frae that , ’ he said , ’ that I took tae the road . ’ |
16 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
17 | I took in the spectacle with great personal satisfaction … |
18 | I took in the surroundings and kept them to myself . |
19 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
20 | The carton I took from the supermarket said ‘ POISON ’ in big letters , and ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ , so she will be dead by now . |
21 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
22 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
23 | I take as the third period that which follows upon the death or incapacity of the parents . |
24 | That pain in the back of my neck is four pairs of eyes watching every step I take to the church . |
25 | The approach which I take to the subject is one concerned almost exclusively with the Anglo-American tradition , though Hegel is allowed into the last chapter , at the end of which I give some references to sample writings in the continental tradition , especially critical theory . |
26 | I lean into the compost box to grab a double armful of grass cuttings which I take to the courgette beyond the shed and carefully place around the stem . |
27 | I take to the freeways . |
28 | When he come , when his first one on , said she bet nobody , why Alice come last night at six o'clock but I did n't put them on , I was only at the , I take to the shops you know you do , you have to put the name who you 're talking to on |