Example sentences of "[noun sg] take it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself . |
| 3 | Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world . |
| 4 | Each side takes it in turn to bat . |
| 5 | But now everyone who has a car takes it out . |
| 6 | She kept them all in a portfolio ; the fuzz took it away . ’ |
| 7 | Here by calling the last witness , the judge was not only supplementing the prosecution ; he was in effect taking it over . |
| 8 | The congregation were like different parts of a huge engine , each one passing a movement on and the recipient taking it up and changing it . |
| 9 | It interests me , and I shall have pleasure taking it apart and examining its secrets . ’ |
| 10 | I just sat there staring at the bag as it unscrewed itself and the wind took it and blew it up into the air and away . |
| 11 | The wind took it , and tore it fluttering from Ace 's fingers . |
| 12 | The sail filled and the boat lifted in the water as the wind took it . |
| 13 | ( Not least is Cold Comfort Farm to be treasured for the fact that an American literary critic took it straight , commenting that some of the characters were overdrawn . ) |
| 14 | Cheap land prices in the region , offering poor cash returns , have also deterred the agent taking it under its wing . |
| 15 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 16 | With bids all over the room , as well as on phones , the Baltimore Museum 's $28,000 ( £20,000 ) bid took it beyond the grasp of New York painting dealer Stuart Feld ( who really did n't need it , having nine others ) . |
| 17 | Well if there 's stuff that 's you know , you do n't want and it 's all right for jumble , I mean if you want it for jumble take it , but if not we 'll have it for jumble , I mean you know it 's erm |
| 18 | and er , I think until women 's football take it on board all the way erm , they 're not really gon na stand up with the men they have to become , referees , they have to become coaches , and more and more of these people erm , taking responsibility . |
| 19 | Er , we keep meaning look at certain things report a eight hour week , including overtime , have a record period of four months and then the filing industry take it away , the work is seasonal . |
| 20 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 21 | As the days went by and the busy little transport box seemed to be making only slow way into the huge heap of lime , he no longer eased it out on the blade of the shovel for the wind to take it but scattered it anywhere out of sight , anywhere to be rid of it . |
| 22 | The London Society implicitly recognises this when it goes on to argue that a DG would allow the president 's post to become part-time , thereby allowing the senior partner of a major practice to take it on . |
| 23 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 24 | The cast of Jack and the Beanstalk at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon , is risking all by working with both children AND animals , but Trevor Bannister , veteran of 20 years of panto takes it all in his stride . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose it has its difficulties and its advan-tages , it just depends on how the individual child takes it . |
| 26 | The girl takes it up , turns it round and asks , ‘ What does it mean ? ’ |
| 27 | Tod takes it . |
| 28 | The Great Sancy takes it name from a French ambassador to Turkey who acquired it in Constantinople and on his return to France in 1593 lent it to Henry IV as a pledge for money to pay his troops . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The council takes it . |