Example sentences of "[art] [noun] take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 2 | The RSPCA took him on because his owners could n't afford the vet 's bill . |
| 3 | Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display . |
| 4 | They are centred around a flower festival at St John 's from today until Sunday and include two organ recitals by Dr Donald Davison and an exhibition on the history of Malone parish , which will be presented by parishioner Dr Paul Larmour , the writer Take it from me , nobody knows more about the past of that part of Belfast than Paul . |
| 5 | As the elder brother , it was his privilege and his right to ‘ go oot ’ whenever the fancy took him , especially as he was a toiler . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , perhaps , he had only risen to the rank of major but , nevertheless , this status had afforded him a certain standard of living , being waited on by subordinates , an agreeable social life and plenty of opportunity , whenever the fancy took him , of indulging in affairs with the opposite sex . |
| 7 | Not only this , but because owls are naturally nocturnal , if I released Dawn during the day , she was quite likely to seek out a suitable roosting place rather than come back to me for food , if the fancy took her . |
| 8 | Lazy bitch , she was : lying on this couch day after day feeling too bad to move ; but she could go upstairs and carry out the duties of a wife whenever the fancy took her . |
| 9 | And you could move about rooms as the fancy took you , of course . |
| 10 | The aura of chaos is furthered by the band 's weird demeanour : each member seems to be shuffling to a different beat , while scruffy frontman Ken staggers around the stage , tugging at his hair and letting rip with bloodcurdling screams whenever the fancy takes him . |
| 11 | Work as the fancy takes me , he wrote . |
| 12 | I 'm taking my walking boots and a tent , and I shall go where the fancy takes me . ’ |
| 13 | Because of this expense a carpet is not an item one changes every year as the fancy takes you . |
| 14 | Within the slim packaging lies a host of mini programs ( called Microapps ) , some of which are useful , some almost indispensable and some you can take or leave as the fancy takes you . |
| 15 | had to shake him up And make the fancy take him |
| 16 | A ‘ Life Line ’ feature , grandfather of our ‘ Material World ’ section , was introduced in which , should the fancy take you , you could find out what Freddie Garrity 's favourite food was or what Gerry Marsden wanted for Christmas . |
| 17 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 18 | The journey back to the resort takes you through the Wachau wine region on the Danube . |
| 19 | To allow the solicitor who has prepared the case to take it in court would not be a perfect solution , but might be some improvement . |
| 20 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 21 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 22 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 23 | The Germans took them , man and wife , back to their war factories . |
| 24 | The Germans took them away in secret , at night . |
| 25 | However they could make the decision to take him away ‘ at any time ’ . |
| 26 | the bit takes it up to the |
| 27 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 28 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 29 | The trail takes you through both old and new plantations — look out for woodpeckers and birds such as long tailed tits and wrens which share their habitat . |
| 30 | The last section of the trail takes you from Bickleywood , on past Barhill Farm and across country to reach the Shropshire Union Canal . |