Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 2 | they step in and take a positive lead when things are n't progressing well . |
| 3 | Come in and take a chair . ’ |
| 4 | I 've got no make make people unhappy and whatsername , break in and take the take your food and everything . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Mr Cottle finally gave in and took a piece of bread and butter , his hand trembling so that the vaunted delicacy looked like a ship 's flag in a breeze . |
| 6 | ‘ I came to tell you something , but no one was here so I got in and took a look . ’ |
| 7 | ONCE upon a time people indulged in the ages-old craft of telling stories to each other — but then television and video stepped in and took the words out of our mouths . |
| 8 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 9 | ‘ It should be a warning to them that if they 're really serious about fighting drug abuse , they need to step in and take a leading role . |
| 10 | Do come in and take a seat . |
| 11 | ‘ Marcus , would you care to step in and take a cup ? ’ |
| 12 | So I thought well I do n't have to wait three weeks for mine so next time I do n't feel great I 'm gon na call in and take a couple of days off . |
| 13 | Yet when victory beckoned earlier this year in the Australian Masters , he backed off to allow Craig Parry to nip in and take the title . |
| 14 | I thought , I 'm for it now , but all she said when she 'd bustled in and taken the coal from the cart , was , 'Ere yar . |
| 15 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 17 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 18 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 19 | She bent down and took a grip of either side of a crate to steady herself . |
| 20 | Ruth sat down and took a letter from her pocket . |
| 21 | . saying what 's that , what 's that so I took , I walked , I walked down and took a photograph of it . |
| 22 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 23 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 24 | Yes , what about her mother ; why could n't she go down and take a turn ? |
| 25 | ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’ |
| 26 | If he had no money , he could sit down and take a bottle of beer from the crate on the table , and carry on drinking until it had run out . |
| 27 | Blanche waited for him to sit down and take a couple of sips . |
| 28 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |
| 29 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 30 | Make the bed — then you can lie down and take the weight off your feet while we talk . |