Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers are increasingly taking a ‘ cafeteria ’ approach to employee benefits , where employees pick the benefits they want or take a cash alternative if that is what they prefer . |
| 2 | look at and browse and take the information that they want rather than putting what sounds to me a lot of work on some |
| 3 | If you find it too much , or your are in pain , stop and take a rest . |
| 4 | Stop and take a good look at the main structure — the tiles , battens , rafters , purlins , beams , wall-plates , trusses , joints . |
| 5 | As you begin to get breathless after starting exercise , stop and take the pulse rate ( count the beats for 30 seconds and then multiply by two to give the rate per minute ) . |
| 6 | The lunch hour is like a time warp — give or take a few price increases . |
| 7 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 8 | ‘ Night or day , give or take a hundred feet , right on the spot . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Three hundred and fifty years , give or take a few . ’ |
| 10 | Its budget , which will cover modernisation of treatment works and construction of new pump shafts , is £250 million at 1989 prices , ‘ give or take a shilling ’ , Watts says . |
| 11 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 12 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 13 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 14 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 15 | ‘ Give or take a few sandbanks . |
| 16 | Give or take a fathom . ’ |
| 17 | Give or take a hundred thousand in each case . |
| 18 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 19 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 20 | She had been married and divorced , had had fifteen lovers , give or take a little , had been to the United States seventeen times , to Africa twice , explored from a car or at a leisurely pace the capitals of Europe , twice circled the world , done the ‘ sophisticated ’ things but left undone so many ordinary things . |
| 21 | Thus , a hedge containing six species might be nearly 700 years old , give or take a couple of hundred ! |
| 22 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |
| 23 | So , give or take a couple of centuries and a few hundred light years , I 'm home . |
| 24 | Er and I said , Give or take a few days , and she said , Yeah . |
| 25 | Now you 're f fourteen give or take a week or two are n't you ? |
| 26 | Midnight , give or take a bit . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ About 11.15 , give or take a few minutes . ’ |
| 28 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 29 | Give or take a few minor exceptions , all members have the same number of chromosomes , and every location along the length of a chromosome has its exact opposite number in the same position along the length of the corresponding chromosome in all other members of the species . |
| 30 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |