Example sentences of "[noun sg] take it [prep] [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If rape is defined as ‘ carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent ’ , then it makes nonsense of the proposition that the jury is the trier of fact if the judge takes it upon himself to tell the jury what is or is not consent . |
| 2 | And eventually the judge took it upon himself to discharge the jury . |
| 3 | That was a case in which a district board took it upon themselves to pull down Mr. Cooper 's house , which they regarded as unsatisfactory , and to burden him with the cost of demolition without having first given him any type of notice . |
| 4 | At the same time the government took it upon itself to interpret ‘ Maximum Admissible Concentration ’ ( MAC ) as meaning an average over three months and not an absolute limit . |
| 5 | It is a dangerous path , however , when the executive takes it upon itself to qualify Parliament 's decisions . |
| 6 | v. Perry , 1987 F.L.R. 237 the court had to consider circumstances which differed from those in the present case and in Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon in that a responsible official of the creditor bank took it upon himself to discharge any duty that might exist in the circumstances by personally dealing with the wife when she executed the documents under attack . |
| 7 | if the interpreter is also acting as culture broker , guide , philosopher and friend several things can happen ; the level of interpreting accuracy diminishes as the interpreter addresses these additional roles , both the non-English and English speaking clients lose control over the content of what is said , and , if the interpreter takes it upon themselves to decide what is to be interpreted , the standard of service usually diminishes . |
| 8 | First , there was no public prosecutor at Athens , so like the Roman informers , the delatores , men like the demagogue Kleon took it on themselves to bring prosecutions for such offences as peculation of public money . |