They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They may be unaware of the existence of lower-class values and consequently fail to take them into account.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

They learn how to take care of children and sick members of the family.

They will take a wedding trip later.

They say that when they take a car, Gloriana doesn't take her car, but rides with them.

They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

They take special care not to destroy the termite mound or consume the entire colony, which ensures that the termites can rebuild and provide a continuous supply of food.

They also meet in England where Poirot often helps Japp solve a case and lets him take credit in return for special favours.

They had been going to meet the steamer which would take them to Scotland for potato picking.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

They bully Stewart and regularly take advantage of his attempts to befriend them, which usually results in Stewart getting in trouble with his parents for something actually done by Beavis and Butt-Head.

They decided not to take up his proposal.

They arrive at the borders of Canaan and send spies into the land, but on hearing the spies ' report the Israelites refuse to take possession of Canaan and God condemns them to death in the wilderness until a new generation can grow up and carry out the task.

They can sometimes be effective in the short-term treatment of psychiatric emergencies such as acute psychosis as in schizophrenia or mania, bringing about rapid tranquillization and sedation until the effects of lithium or neuroleptics ( antipsychotics ) take effect.

They eat insects, fruit, and the sap or gum from trees ; occasionally they will take small vertebrates.

They may wish to take advantage of a spike in demand for a particular coin ( for example, during the annual release of Canadian numismatic collectibles from the Royal Canadian Mint ).

They had to take care of the temples ( whence their title, from the Latin aedes, " temple "), organize games, and be responsible for the maintenance of the public buildings in Rome.

They may on such elevation take a vacant " title " ( a church allotted to a cardinal priest as the Roman church with which he is associated ) or their diaconal church may be temporarily elevated to a cardinal priest's " title " for that occasion.

They made a pact to take alternate years at college while the other worked, in order to earn the tuitions.

They take a last walk in the park.

They can be declined for number when they are used as substitutes for nouns ( as in, " I'll take the reds ", meaning " I'll take the red ones " or as shorthand for " I'll take the red wines ", for example ).

They lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.

They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.

They rode to the Rockfork House, a little farther along the opposite side of the street.

They know little about their machinery beyond mechanical details.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.

They are the most beautiful part of that little piece of nature.

They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.

They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot.

They also caught on a little bit on how to smile a lot without your lips trembling.

They were a little late in getting home.

They depend on my supposedly expert knowledge of a trade of which they themselves know little.

They have little `` esprit de corps ''.

They apologized for the condition, including dirt and flies, and I was a little at a loss to know what to say.

`` They can be going along, doing little damage, then bang, bang -- they can hit a couple of passes on you for touchdowns and put you in trouble ''.

They knew what they could do and it was often a little more than I thought they could do.

They had divided the Congo into six provinces -- Leopoldville, Kasai, Kivu, Katanga, Equator and Eastern -- unfortunately with little regard for ethnic groupings.

They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.

They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.

They are likely to have lived on areas of the ocean floor that received little or no light and fed on detritus that descended from upper layers of the sea to the bottom.

They noted that there was little vocabulary shared by Turkic and Tungusic but not Mongolic.

They believed the continuities of the deepest structures were central to history, beside which upheavals in institutions or the superstructure of social life were of little significance, for history lies beyond the reach of conscious actors, especially the will of revolutionaries.

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.