Example sentences of "and they took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That slaughter , when it comes , is reported in the baldest possible terms : ‘ … the people went up into the city , every man straight before him , and they took the city . |
| 2 | Well , the polis was brought , naturally , and they took the body away to the work house mortuary . |
| 3 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 4 | And they took the thirty pieces of silver , the sum at which the precious One was priced by the children of Israel … ’ |
| 5 | Those who had attended informed their colleagues of the fact — and they took the hint . |
| 6 | William did n't know what it was — flood or earthquake , drought or famine , or a combination of all four — but they moved , and they took the fleas and the bacilli with them , and somewhere in their travels they encountered the black rat rattus rattus , and the drama began to move along a bit , because rattus rattus was a vagabond and a great little mover . |
| 7 | It 's the same as everything and everybody and because er they were satisfied with it , they wanted some more and they took the old lo lock off and put some more on what I 'd made , see what I mean . |
| 8 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 9 | ‘ The first people to arrive were servants from Ipuky 's household , and they took the body there . |
| 10 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |