Example sentences of "take them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As despair grew and self respect diminished we would take them at their unspoken word and go and buy a bottle of anaesthetic and uncork the genie who would play merry hell with the last vestige of hope of recovery . |
| 2 | I think competitions can be fun as long as you do n't take them at all seriously . |
| 3 | A month ago , when Jim Bob and Fruitbat jokingly suggested that it might be vaguely amusing to tie in the , if you will , ‘ concept ’ of the album with a foreign press conference to promote it , they did n't think that the marketing johnnies at Chrysalis and EMI would take them at their word . |
| 4 | Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group . |
| 5 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 6 | Then proceed to those that have still some way to go and take them at least a little further . |
| 7 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 8 | ideally you 'd take your lessons well you can , you 'll take them at Haileybury presumably , I 'm not |
| 9 | How can I take them at Haileybury ? |
| 10 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 11 | But taking them at all is a special achievement . |
| 12 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 14 | So I took them at their word and phoned them up . |
| 15 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 16 | They took them at school , all at school . |
| 17 | The old records at the Royal Greenwich Observatory contained a consistent error , and Eddy had been wrong to take them at face value . |
| 18 | He realised that if he was to be successful he would have to take them at speed . |
| 19 | and if you feel that the pains are bad during the night , take them at |
| 20 | if you need them , take them at bedtime . |
| 21 | In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this . |