Example sentences of "they took [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they took into account prices falling by 2 per cent a year the annual advantage of renting added up to £2,288 over buying . |
| 2 | ‘ They all knew I was pregnant , but it never seemed to be something they took into consideration , ’ Lynda Coral recalls . |
| 3 | He had imagined the nuns to be very particular whom they took into their house as pupils . |
| 4 | Richards asked employers about the factors they took into account when recruiting apprentices . |
| 5 | They took into account whether I had put matches down or taken them away . |
| 6 | In making those recommendations they made clear they took into account the recommend the representations made and views expressed to them whilst complying with the statutory requirement that they should aim to recommend the European parliamentary constituencies with as nearly as possible equal electorates . |
| 7 | They took with them the word ‘ Tabernacle ’ which came to mean in architectural terms a building in rectangular shape , with a Greek temple frontage outside and inside , little decoration and preaching in the conservative , earthy , evangelistic and Calvinistic tradition . |
| 8 | They took with them the 16-year-old Jane as interpreter . |
| 9 | They took with them their sketchpads , diaries , palettes and easels ( later their cameras ) . |
| 10 | It is an interesting reflection on relative values that when Chinese coolies returned home they took with them greenstone pebbles collected from the Fraser River . |
| 11 | ‘ You should have seen what they took with them , ’ he laughed . |
| 12 | They took with them packed lunches , jewellery , silver penknives , enamelled badges , Art Nouveau watches , substantial amounts of silver and gold coinage — not to mention the fascinating tools and equipment carried in their bulging rucksacks and bicycle bags . |
| 13 | This partial detachment from natural appearances , which has already been seen in the landscapes of Picasso and Braque of 1908 , is one of the factors that distinguish most clearly their approach from that of Cézanne and other nineteenth-century artists , and even from the Fauves , whose vision , with the occasional exception of Matisse , despite the liberties they took with their subjects , was still conditioned by their instantaneous reactions to their surroundings . |
| 14 | When they eventually withdrew they took with them four thousand slaves and great herds of cattle . |
| 15 | They took for granted what was dying in their hands . ’ |
| 16 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |
| 17 | They took for granted the historical events of Jesus : his birth , life , death and resurrection . |
| 18 | As Robert Rothstein has commented , Realism was popular with politicians because it ‘ encapsulated what they took for granted , especially after the failures of the 1930s and during the height of the cold war ’ . |
| 19 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 20 | The incidence of syphilis itself , though a real problem , was actually declining from the 1860s while the Acts were manifestly unfair , for they took for granted the double standard and consequently sought to control working-class women while ignoring the major source for the spreading of the disease , the men . |
| 21 | I barely understood any of the cultural references that they took for granted . |
| 22 | They took for granted all the hard work that my assistant , Billy McCullough and I put in over all those years . |
| 23 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 24 | Between the ideologues and monetarists of the New Right , and the revisionist Marxists of the New Left , defenders of what they took to be the post-1945 social order floundered unhappily . |
| 25 | In nineteenth-century Paris young revellers would melt down chocolate and smear horrified passers-by with what they took to be excrement . |
| 26 | From a half doze Jane saw Christopher and Francis emerge from the barn , go to the kitchen and re-emerge with the sack of flour , which they took to the barn ! |
| 27 | I produced some option plans and they took to it like a duck takes to water . ’ |
| 28 | Our main inference was that as insectivorous primates radiated within the forest they took to fruit-eating and became diurnal . |
| 29 | They had a cosy assurance in the obvious existence of a divine architect for what they took to be an elegant and attractive world , neatly designed like one of their drawing-rooms . |
| 30 | On entering the tavern , the Wokingham men saw Chalk and Fowler accompanied by an elderly man whom they took to be the lawyer . |