Example sentences of "they take their " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they were all assembled , he went out unto them , to a place which was made ready with carpets and with mats , and he made them take their seats before him full honourably , and began to speak unto them , saying , I am a man who have never possessed a kingdom , neither I nor any man of my lineage . |
| 2 | Let them take their art with them into the afterlife |
| 3 | Immediately the little mountain tribesmen , who seemed to have stepped straight out of the sepia photographs in his history book , began unloading the baggage , and Joseph saw them take their crossbows and arrows from the carts and carry them to their own huts a hundred yards away along the riverbank … |
| 4 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 5 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 6 | Only a dramatic confrontation with the reality of their condition will make them take their illness seriously . |
| 7 | The important thing was to let them take their own time , and not frighten them away . |
| 8 | But they hasten to point out that many spend them taking their charges to exotic educational destinations . |
| 9 | Things were cheaper there than outside — butter , sugar , candles , tea , fruit — and he felt grown-up , puffed with self-importance , at being allowed with all those policemen , seeing them taking their ease , sitting at table , drinking , smoking , laughing , playing cards , some with their coats off and braces showing . |
| 10 | Many of them took their carefully stored tricolours from their hiding places . |
| 11 | The three of them took their coffee and the impossibly generous plate of cake and mince pies out to the enclosed section of veranda beyond the kitchen where Belinda and Mrs Porter sometimes sat during their rare free moments . |
| 12 | And you could quite rightly think , Why do n't they take their turn ? |
| 13 | In particular , we consider such crucial questions as : what are the characteristic images and explanations of public disorder presented by the media , and why do they take their conventional form ? |
| 14 | And why are n't they taking their holidays ? |
| 15 | When they took their stand against gambling on the football pools by refusing to release the fixture-lists in advance , they incurred the wrath of the press as well as the pools promoters . |
| 16 | They took their places beside local worthies and the artist 's mother , Mrs Laura Hockney , who watched her daughter Margaret join in the pasting up . |
| 17 | ( Unfortunately , there is no hint of the conversations that took place at this time between Lloyd George and Mr Thomas as they took their daily morning walk ‘ across the park ’ from the underground station at Westminster . ) |
| 18 | Never conventional homeowners , the Stewarts , from the West Coast of Scotland , lived in an 18th-century house in Spitalfields when they took their textile business to London . |
| 19 | When this failed , they took their cases to the courts . |
| 20 | They took their work seriously , and were sensitive to criticism . |
| 21 | They took their drinks to a quiet corner table and sat down . |
| 22 | Dinner was an unvarying weekly round in which boiled beef and mutton figured largely , and it was little compensation to several hundred hungry schoolboys that they took their meals in the school 's magnificent hall , overlooked by the demure and decorative paintings of Antonio Verrio . |
| 23 | One day they took their niece , Doris Carter , to a rehearsal : |
| 24 | When they took their shoes off they found their feet were bleeding . |
| 25 | They took their various allocated strains of Staphylococcus aureus or whatever , applied standard methods , and came up with a particular teichoic acid or teichoic acid-like polymer . |
| 26 | By marriage they inherited more land and a mansion on the banks of the River Ayr at Stair , from which they took their title . |
| 27 | Almost without conscious will they took their first steps from the track on to the rough headland towards it . |
| 28 | Several townspeople were so depressed at the semi-popish ways of Charles I and Archbishop Laud that they took their idealism to the New World , to a new and more perfect Dorchester . |
| 29 | And they took their case to the small claims court . |
| 30 | It was here in Chambers Street that Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were living — probably , we may guess , as guests of brother Thomas at no. 11 — when they took their little son for baptism at St Mary Whitechapel in the March of 1809 , a few days short of his first birthday . |