Example sentences of "[coord] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 's got a moment she probably reads Bella , Best or Take a Break , and regularly buys the Daily Mail . |
| 2 | The lunch hour is like a time warp — give or take a few price increases . |
| 3 | Or take a white Rolls Royce into Los Angeles gangland to interview Raul ( ‘ Pinky ’ ) Estoban — who gave story and photographs in return for being allowed to drive the car himself ? |
| 4 | You wo n't be asked to mend fences or brand steers , but you will have the chance to watch the ranch hands — the wranglers — at work ; go riding or walking , or take a drive into town for some shopping . |
| 5 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 6 | ‘ Night or day , give or take a hundred feet , right on the spot . ’ |
| 7 | At some Clubs you can learn archery or take a keep-fit class too . |
| 8 | If your evenings are made for relaxing then why not enjoy a drink and chat with friends at the bar , or take a moonlit stroll along the beach , or simply sit back and absorb the atmosphere ? |
| 9 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 10 | ‘ Three hundred and fifty years , give or take a few . ’ |
| 11 | And on these occasions they would visit the museums or take a trip to Durham , or travel down the river to Shields in the ferryboat . |
| 12 | So they said , ‘ Do some business , take some nurse 's training , or take a sewing machine and look after the movement . |
| 13 | There 's no shortage of activity , as you pedal your way to power in ‘ Electrifying Leeds ’ , or take a ‘ deco ’ at silent movies in the museum 's own 1920s cinema . |
| 14 | Its budget , which will cover modernisation of treatment works and construction of new pump shafts , is £250 million at 1989 prices , ‘ give or take a shilling ’ , Watts says . |
| 15 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 16 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 17 | Or will she stay with relatives or friends , or take a holiday away with them ? |
| 18 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 19 | Employers are increasingly taking a ‘ cafeteria ’ approach to employee benefits , where employees pick the benefits they want or take a cash alternative if that is what they prefer . |
| 20 | Either traverse right until just right of the arête , then boldly straight up on small holds to an easing in the angle and protection , or take a lower traverse across the wall until it is possible to work back up and leftwards to join the direct way at the protection . |
| 21 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 22 | ‘ Give or take a few sandbanks . |
| 23 | Here you can take a boat on the estuary or a river trip to Totnes , or take a steam train on the Dart Valley Railway . |
| 24 | Give or take a fathom . ’ |
| 25 | Give or take a hundred thousand in each case . |
| 26 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 27 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 28 | The more obvious solution is to invest your money with an insurance company , as mentioned above , or take a personal pension . |
| 29 | Delft also has several fascinating museums and many old and attractive buildings and in the summer months you can see the sights without walking , simply catch the horse drawn tram or take a cruise in the canals . |
| 30 | The choice is clear — you take the job that is at the status you require ( never mind the specialty ) wherever it is offered , or take a job below your grade in the area where your spouse works . |