Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] take it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't pay good money because it was set with spinels instead of rubies , so the man took it back . ’ |
| 2 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
| 3 | The LXX remained an exclusive Jewish possession until the Christians took it over . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I would n't care to be in your shoes if the general took it into his head to inspect you now . |
| 7 | And it was true , over the long term you were finished if the malais took it into their heads that you were the wrong kind of Danuese . |
| 8 | It is invariant because the flow takes it into ( and on to ) itself . |
| 9 | One argument is that payment by a worthless cheque does not satisfy the requirement in s.3(1) that the creditor is " paid " because the victim takes it in satisfaction of the debt . |
| 10 | It is a dangerous path , however , when the executive takes it upon itself to qualify Parliament 's decisions . |
| 11 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sail filled and the boat lifted in the water as the wind took it . |