Example sentences of "down and take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 2 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 3 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 4 | She bent down and took a grip of either side of a crate to steady herself . |
| 5 | Ruth sat down and took a letter from her pocket . |
| 6 | . saying what 's that , what 's that so I took , I walked , I walked down and took a photograph of it . |
| 7 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 8 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 9 | Yes , what about her mother ; why could n't she go down and take a turn ? |
| 10 | ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’ |
| 11 | If he had no money , he could sit down and take a bottle of beer from the crate on the table , and carry on drinking until it had run out . |
| 12 | Blanche waited for him to sit down and take a couple of sips . |
| 13 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |
| 14 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 15 | Make the bed — then you can lie down and take the weight off your feet while we talk . |
| 16 | Rather than , sort of , go from Manchester by plane what , they decided they 'd drive down and take the car over so we were supposed to be going for a meal and they said , where shall we go for a meal ? |
| 17 | The moment when Pascoe had sat down and taken a sip of the wine ! |