Example sentences of "to take [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the proposed new arrangements , booklets issued for the remainder of 1992/93 will contain only enough payslips to take employers to the end of the deduction year , and they will be accompanied by an explanatory leaflet . |
| 2 | But we used to have to take notes during the lecture a and then write the lectures up afterwards . |
| 3 | He may be asked to take notes of the evidence . |
| 4 | Always have a pen and paper by the phone so that you are able to take notes of the conversation . |
| 5 | Anyway I pretend to take ages in the toilet . |
| 6 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |
| 7 | REMEMBER to take pictures of the flower displays at your location this summer for a change of winning 1993 Location in Bloom competition . |
| 8 | The Palace hit back immediately by withdrawing the newspaper 's pass to take pictures of the family Christmas at Sandringham and warning other newspapers about upsetting the royals this Christmas . |
| 9 | ‘ Railway enthusiasts were given the chance to take pictures of the loco during the weekend and that was very popular . ’ |
| 10 | Photographers arrived to take pictures of the mail bags , and the Yorkshire TV still of Hannah inhabited the front pages for weeks . |
| 11 | He also found a different sort of fame through his increasing interest in photography , when Life magazine commissioned him to take pictures of the wedding of his co-star Lynn Redgrave — who played his fiancée in Black Comedy — to producer-director John Clark in April 1967 . |
| 12 | ‘ Satellites can be programmed to take pictures at the customer 's request , ’ Dr Baker explained . |
| 13 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 14 | Tax reforms are important , as is investment in infrastructure , particularly in public transport , such as British Rail and other forms of high-quality public transport , to take cars off the road . |
| 15 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 16 | Brenzone is a pleasant village with an easy , relaxed pace of life , an ideal base for those wishing to take trips on the lake or explore the lakeside towns . |
| 17 | This Sunday there will be a 50seat bus waiting outside Middlesbrough railway station at 9am to take doubters into the heart of uncharted Cleveland . |
| 18 | Darlington Council is providing a bus service to take visitors from the centre of Darlington to the factory site . |
| 19 | We have no need to take lectures from the Opposition , who presided over the slashing of prison building by 29 per cent . |
| 20 | Both of them treated the case as one in which there was an implied threat by the defendant to deprive the plaintiff 's clerk of his right to take extracts from the parish register for no charge ; and both appear to have concluded that , in the circumstances , although that threat was made before the plaintiff 's clerk obtained the extracts he needed , nevertheless it was causative of the payment which was therefore recoverable on the ground of compulsion . |
| 21 | It is worth pointing out — as did Dr Akena Adoko in his book on the Jeffrey Archer trial — that there may have been an additional development in the folkways of the juryroom : the frequent practice of the rich ( the typical plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity , as did Mr Archer , might act as an additional , and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling . |
| 22 | Sir : Dr Paul Robertshaw ( 3 October ) suggests that the frequent practice of the rich ( typical libel plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity acts ‘ as an additional and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling ’ . |
| 23 | I started to take things from the house as well , y'know , little things that I thought would n't be noticed . |
| 24 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 25 | Students are strongly advised , wherever possible to take examinations at the centre where they are enrolled to study . |
| 26 | Er we 're going to take questions at the end er the camera there is for internal use only and at the end we 'll hand out copies of the slides to anyone who wants them . |
| 27 | Congress speaker Thomas Foley meanwhile ruled out the president appearing before Congress after his speech to take questions in the style of the British Prime Minister . |
| 28 | But they were not allowed to take readings off the island of Novaya Zemlya , a former Soviet nuclear testing site . |
| 29 | They were not allowed to take passengers on the river . |
| 30 | It was all very well for Dawlish to tell me to take orders from the Brain , he did n't have to obey them . |