Example sentences of "they [verb] be take " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the majority of athletes begin to take vitamin supplements the most basic mistake they make is to take too many without considering which is going to help them most . |
| 2 | The difference remains when the age at which they die is taken into account . |
| 3 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 4 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 5 | They 'd been taking their very last walk of a well earned holiday . |
| 6 | They 'd been taken care of . |
| 7 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 8 | I learnt by various devious means , ’ and here he winked at her , ‘ that they 'd been taken out by someone in the section that deals with the interrogation of defectors from the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 10 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 11 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 12 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 13 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 14 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 15 | I do n't think they 've been to take the photographs yet |
| 16 | This is ideal for draining vegetables once they 've been taken off the hob . |
| 17 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 18 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've lost many of our localised products because they 've been taken over by multi-nationals . |
| 20 | They 've been taken as typical of the senior editors and right across every function area is is covered by that and I 've got erm sample job descriptions for all the editorial levels and I can get them for any other secretarial levels or design and I can acquire those if you want to see what has been done in terms of trying to draw up a framework , you know , that kind of thing . |
| 21 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 22 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 23 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 24 | The Hawick policeman told me it was a very serious accident in which Moira , Rachel , Fiona and Alastair had all been involved : they had been taken to different hospitals but he did not know the extent of their injuries or any other details . |
| 25 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere . |
| 26 | When the cheeses came from the farm they had been taken fresh from the moulds . |
| 27 | Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house . |
| 28 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 29 | He noticed that someone had moved the few horses they had managed to round up , and sent two men to find out where they had been taken . |
| 30 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |