Example sentences of "them take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon pay my wages and my commitment to them takes top priority . |
| 2 | Call the guard , let them take good care of him , he 's a desperate firebrand . ’ |
| 3 | I am not saying this is universal , of course , but I think the pressure from the City on industry to maximise profits tends to make them take short cuts . |
| 4 | Most of the other dancers in the company were straight from school , some of them taking leading parts while only about fifteen . |
| 5 | I did n't mind them taking any coal . |
| 6 | Villa had always been in command , but a combination of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping by David Seaman prevented them taking full advantage . |
| 7 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 8 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 9 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 10 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 11 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |
| 12 | FRED 1 's proposals in respect of extraordinary items were generally well received , although several commentators wanted to see them taken one stage further and recommended banning the use of the category of extraordinary items . |
| 13 | To break this cycle we asked the women to aim at eating three meals each day and encouraged them to take small steps to reach this goal . |
| 14 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 15 | FORMER transport minister Peter Bottomley today described as ‘ potentially murderous ’ a claim that wearing helmets gave cyclists a false sense of security and could encourage them to take greater risks . |
| 16 | In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action . |
| 17 | Police have admitted that there are easy pickings for thieves at some museums and galleries , and they 're warning them to take extra precautions . |
| 18 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 19 | When people do cross the threshold of the church , do we make it easy for them to take that step ? |
| 20 | Redefine the problem in terms of a challenge , ask them to take two steps backwards and treat it as an experiment . |
| 21 | To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria . |
| 22 | Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle . |
| 23 | Much more popular with the prisoners are the range of Vocational Training Courses ( VTC ) which take men for a period of 20 or 26 weeks , give them a thorough training in a particular skill and enable them to take outside examinations . |
| 24 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 25 | Most of those whom the king preserved in office were men of the middle nobility , men whose experience would enable them to take effective charge of those placed under them . |
| 26 | A bark alerts their owner to a likely disturbance , enabling them to take effective action . |
| 27 | In Addis Ababa Tafari did his best to unite the frightened and divided chiefs and to persuade them to take effective action . |
| 28 | He argues that the depression marks the exhaustion of firms ' ability to obtain profits from the last generation of innovations and their low profit rates force them to take radical steps . |
| 29 | Thirdly , official labour market intermediaries in the job centres are an important source of information about employment prospects and a crucial part of the process of discouraging older workers from searching for work and , indirectly , of encouraging them to take early retirement . |
| 30 | In addition , contract computer staff often gain advice and assistance from the agencies through which they work on how to proceed with incorporation , and are often encouraged by them to take this step . |