Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] take it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 2 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 3 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 4 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 5 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 6 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 7 | I sent her the manuscript , and she appointed a day for me to come to tea and take it back . |
| 8 | Jack thought to himself as he poured yet another cup of tea and took it back to his comfortable swivel chair . |
| 9 | George poured out her tea and took it in to her . |
| 10 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 11 | Cornelius came around the car and took it from him . |
| 12 | Bees collect it in great baskets on their thighs and take it back to their hives for immediate consumption or for turning into pollen bread which is an essential food for their developing young . |
| 13 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 14 | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla . |
| 15 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , near Liverpool , had almost sunk when rescuers managed to haul it on to a slipway and take it back to Douglas . |
| 16 | I like women , Katherine , I like to give them pleasure and to take it . |
| 17 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 18 | Later , in 1965 , Elvis Presley remembered the ditty and took it back up the charts . |
| 19 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |
| 20 | He marched back in with his shoes duly laced up , before telling the court : ‘ I have been made to look like a child in a legal institution and take it very badly . ’ |
| 21 | On Tuesday , the NUM was not only threatening strike action but taking it . |
| 22 | Hitler himself had lent support to such optimism , as we saw earlier , in his speech on 30 September 1942 , by stating emphatically that German troops would ‘ overrun Stalingrad and take it ’ . |
| 23 | " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard . |
| 24 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
| 25 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 26 | Because you keep it all inside it against you , you begin to feel bad about yourself you begin to lose your self esteem erm you know and that 's the most dangerous thing about being bullied in terms of being at school or whether it 's even at work and being submissive is withdraw internalise and to take it out on yourself . |
| 27 | Then he filled his cheap vacuum flask and took it back to the car where it completed a meal of dry crusty bread and cheese . |
| 28 | buy their stuff away down south and take it . |
| 29 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 30 | The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs . |