Example sentences of "[noun pl] take it " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeVore 's eyes took it all in with great interest . |
| 2 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 3 | The local skaters take it upon themselves to remove some dangerous panelling designed to withstand loose board , however the local council see this as an act of vandalism and feeling are strong amongst some councillors to get rid of the ramp . |
| 4 | When the screen is completed , a local builder and about half-a-dozen husbands take it to the peace well at the corner of the village green on the Saturday morning . |
| 5 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 6 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 7 | and they said whose parents took it ? |
| 8 | Moreover , companies taking it up will get £3,500 from the local authority for every job created . |
| 9 | Instead of the usual stonings and demonstrations , a number of Arabs took it upon themselves to launch unprovoked knife attacks on Israeli civilians . |
| 10 | But I do n't want any of your chaps taking it away . |
| 11 | Undaunted , one of the Marines took it upon himself to pop out from hiding just long enough to hurl a grenade at the gun position . |
| 12 | It is amazing , you see why the American Indians took it , to get into their spiritual world , and they were there . |
| 13 | It was very difficult to get the venture capitalists and the bankers to take it seriously . |
| 14 | The contractors take it away and dilute it before spreading it thinly on the soil . ’ |
| 15 | twinges take it off the hinges we was getting nowhere What shall we |
| 16 | Competition punting only takes place on the Thames but the sport 's devotees take it very seriously . |
| 17 | And as the chorus of supers took it up , ‘ Sir , have mercy … ’ we would skip back again — until our next big moment . |
| 18 | Various groups of psychotherapists and psychologists took it up , but hypnotherapy was soon overshadowed by the development of Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic movement , which relied on free association instead . |
| 19 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 20 | The LXX remained an exclusive Jewish possession until the Christians took it over . |
| 21 | They were also responsible for their own medication — although it was common for users , families to ask staff to remind individuals to take it . |
| 22 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
| 23 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 24 | To some westerners this seems pseudo-philosophical bunkum , but East Asians take it seriously . |
| 25 | The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights takes it for granted not merely that all individual men are members of a single animal species , Homo sapiens , but that this biological fact carries with it moral implications . |
| 26 | The four elder nieces took it in turn each month to serve as housekeeper and keep the accounts . |
| 27 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 28 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
| 29 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 30 | ‘ Why do all the other flats take it so placidly for Heaven 's sake ? ’ |