Example sentences of "[verb] take their " in BNC.

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1 By the end of their jaunt on the high seas initially dubious visitors are often reluctant to return home and will consider taking their own clients on a similar event .
2 that , then starts taking their anger out on her
3 Other rabbits were making their way along the run and Strawberry spoke to several of them , more than once remarking that he would enjoy taking their new friends across the field .
4 McEnroe , 33 , who has taken their three children to Fort Worth , Texas , where he is in training , refused to comment .
5 If a higher proportion of pensioners are now in the top half of the distribution , who has taken their place in the lower half , and why ?
6 Many of them often feel that baby has taken their place .
7 But as with physical wounds , it can sometimes run into complications caused by careless handling or the existence of unfavourable external or internal conditions which may delay recovery ; so the main concern of those caring for the bereaved should be to try to create the best possible conditions in which healing can take place , in which they feel loved and safe , and are permitted to take their time to absorb the fact of their loss and come to terms with it .
8 Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks .
9 Some vendors are promising that they will provide it on their own , others such as Quark are linking to specific vendors ( Scitex in this case ) while still others such as Aldus are merely providing an open interface to anyone who cares to take their files on board .
10 Instead they tried to take their minds off the poster campaign by providing weekend entertainment .
11 He never became one of the people , but he measured the material conditions of their existence and tried to take their side .
12 Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique .
13 If people want to take their pets for walks then they must buy pack animals like dogs , for which group movement is the most natural thing on earth .
14 A lot of people who own Gibsons with humbuckers want to take their covers off .
15 The person who goes there and basically they want to take their home with them .
16 It can be used defensively to convince ourselves we do not need to take their ideas , understandings and values seriously , and to reinforce our own superior knowledge .
17 Many of the old takeover favourites were also hard hit as speculators moved to take their profits .
18 As this supply diminished , poor whites from the Appalachian plateau and , in greatly increasing numbers , blacks from the south moved to take their place .
19 As the men moved to take their seats on the sides of the rafts , each one was handed a paddle .
20 As he moved towards the table Joe noticed that , although they had been bidden to take their seats , neither Mrs Carver , nor Mick , nor Carrie did until Mr Carver was seated ; then , each pulling a chair out from under the table , they sat down ; and having done so , Mick pointed to a carved chair with a leather seat and said to him , ‘ Come , sit down .
21 These birds may be seen taking their specially prepared foods from raised feeding trays and nectar tubes arranged near the visitors ' viewing path .
22 Ruth waited till he 'd taken their food order before speaking .
23 The waitress came to take their order .
24 That was the morning when the police and social workers came to take their children away ; the morning when seven other children were also removed from their homes in what many people saw as ‘ revenge ’ on the part of the local authority .
25 Good God , I 've known you long enough and why the hell have my knees decided to take their annual vacation at this precise moment ?
26 Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right .
27 Patrick Wintour adds : Motorists in London wanting to take their car into capital should be required to buy a £ 4 a day licence which would also give them access to free public transport in the City , The Liberal Democrats yesterday recommended a £4 a day central London charge , to include free out-of-centre parking and a public transport pass .
28 ‘ Mr McQuaid 's room is ready , ’ Maggie said as they prepared to take their leave for the night .
29 They were used to being the pet of the house , and so whenever I went to my uncles , both dogs never seemed to take their eyes off me and their big mouths were always gaping wide , showing long sharp teeth , and I knew fine they 'd like to sink them into me .
30 As soon as one set of questions were on the way to being answered , others seemed to take their place .
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