Example sentences of "they [adv] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |
| 2 | They obviously took the words of the Bishop of Norwich to heart . |
| 3 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 4 | I think it would be much easier and more logical if they just took the key with them . |
| 5 | She had an English accent ; the English were n't normally health conscious , unlike the Americans , and they always took the lift . |
| 6 | They also took a thousand pounds cash . |
| 7 | They are believed to have made off with silverware and they also took a necklace which the woman was wearing . |
| 8 | They also took the opportunity to fit a Packman to one side of the sprayer to end the chore of filling the sprayer manually for ever . |
| 9 | Police found credit cards in both the name of Garawand and Yousefi they also took the keys to a white Ford Transit van , which they discovered in a car park . |
| 10 | And they now took a new name — the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . |
| 11 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |
| 12 | to cover their heads and , cos of Ramadan and erm you know they , they really took the Mick out of them you know , and then , when |
| 13 | She said to me , Phil , they ca n't my spirit , but they really took the heart out of me . |
| 14 | Two years after the secession , Robert of Stratford , the Chancellor of England and Oxford , wrote to Cambridge University with the sobering thought that and until 1854 , Oxford made students swear an oath They even took the Brazenose gate knocker to Oxford in 189O under the impression that it had originally come from Oxford . |
| 15 | On tries the cherry and whites won by three to one … they looked sharp enough moving into attack … and looked good enough for victory … they even took the lead midway through the first half … with a well worked and well taken try by Tim Smith … |
| 16 | They then took an Astra car but neighbours heard the car being broken into and alerted police . |
| 17 | That would do , but they should ease down when they come past , but they did n't , they never took no notice . |
| 18 | The rebels were forced to sue for peace — and they received it , but only on condition that they too took the cross . |
| 19 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 20 | So they actually took a very active role against it , and had been the allies of people like the National Consumers ' League on other issues , but on this one they really differed , and were one of the major blocks to passing the legislation . |
| 21 | Well if they actually took the time to explain to you what went into those sausages , you probably would n't eat them at all , would you ? |
| 22 | They actually took they actually took the front off so that the water would get hotter . |
| 23 | After her death they certainly took the full brunt , Silvio in particular . |