Example sentences of "we take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Why do n't we take Harry out to dinner at the club ?
2 May we take pride in our achievements and accept our limitations .
3 ‘ Tell you what , mother , ca n't we take Kevin away in the back of the cart with the childer ?
4 Shall we take photographs ?
5 Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ?
6 This is the difficult thing , how , how do we take account of the sub offices of erm Scarborough and , and Northallerton ?
7 Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending .
8 If I opened it up could we take care of the healing together ?
9 My point is that before we try to improve the public image of chemists and chemistry , should n't we take steps to ensure that the public know which profession we are talking about ?
10 Right , can we take Mr Cunnane and then Mr Thomas , and we 'll do you after tea .
11 Let us take Lambeth and Wandsworth .
12 Let us take vision as an example .
13 Let us take stock of the argument so far .
14 At this point let us take stock of the limitations we have put on our research .
15 So let us take stock of where we have reached so far in our analysis of the Lucas business cycle model .
16 He saw us take lodgings at a tavern in Muswell Street . ’
17 Let us take gambling as an example .
18 Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support .
19 Let us take staffing .
20 A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said : ‘ Research like this can help us take steps to reduce the risk of a mistake being made that could have catastrophic consequences . ’
21 Let us take finance as an example .
22 To the alarm of his companions , he stopped , knelt down and said to them , ‘ Let us take time to pray to the Lord . ’
23 Firstly let us take conservation .
24 Let us take crickets as an example .
25 At Kew , the keepers let us take windfalls
26 Let us take table D1.1 in the ’ Training Statistics 1991 ’ , which the Secretary of State denied existed earlier in the debate .
27 Let us take care , on the advice of Dr Dunstaple , to ventilate our rooms , our clothes and our persons as best we can lest cholera be present in an invisible poisonous miasma .
28 And at the same time let us take care with washing and cleanliness and other precautions to see that we do n't ingest the morbid agent in any liquid or solid form .
29 Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness .
30 Let us take methods first .
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