Example sentences of "they take [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do n't they take a course of adult education ? |
| 2 | Do they take a blindfold and a pin into the booth with them , and then spend four years boasting that nobody had better take their support for granted if they want to get re-elected ? |
| 3 | ‘ How could they take the place of fairy Brownies ? ’ asked Jenny , shaking her head in disbelief . |
| 4 | Why should they take the risk ? ’ |
| 5 | The main question that we wish to explore in this work is that of how decision-makers tackle reasonably complex dynamic decision-problems under risk : how do they take the risk into account ? |
| 6 | Only twice in their first 57 appearances did they take the stage without him . |
| 7 | Those who ask for reports have no time to read long ones- nor will they take the trouble to unravel texts like the example given above . |
| 8 | Where do they where do they take the pound ? |
| 9 | So they 've done it , I think someone er who 's walking along the road , see you standing there taking that picture and say , what on earth are they taking a picture of that for ? |
| 10 | If the two in the Renault were impostors , why were they taking the risk of using the car and the passports of two people who were presumed dead ? |
| 11 | Next morning they took a cab to Holborn . |
| 12 | They took a holiday together and their employers , Brocks Explosives , fired them both . |
| 13 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 14 | You see , when they took a century 's dust and dirt off those walls , they completely changed the acoustics , swapping grubby absorbency for beautiful , bright marble which bounced the sound all over the place . |
| 15 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 16 | They took a peek , and then did everything but lay down and wag their tails . |
| 17 | After landing at Bangkok , they took a helicopter to the tiny Thai island of Phuket on the edge of the Indian Ocean . |
| 18 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 19 | They took a taxi to his place , and once inside the cab his hand wandered on to her knee . |
| 20 | ‘ How did you know he was waiting for us ? ’ asked Billie as they took a taxi into the centre of London . |
| 21 | They took a taxi to the flat , which was in a quiet , imposing block overlooking Bedford Square . |
| 22 | They took a farrier with them , not trusting to strangers en route . |
| 23 | They took a crate of beer back to his flat in his mother 's home . |
| 24 | They took a beating on the Mudchute . |
| 25 | During their visit they took a video camera with the intention of making a short film to show what conditions are really like . |
| 26 | Thieves struck at Northgate , where they took a video recorder , a pearl necklace , cash and a gold ring , and at Bowman Street , where a hi-fi , television , video recorder , microwave , telephone and clock radio were taken . |
| 27 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 28 | But they took a dive between half three and five . |
| 29 | And they took a mouthful and urgh ! |
| 30 | Maybe if they took a chance and played a song that was over three minutes long , the audience 's attention span would grow . ’ |