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 mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

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

They will -- when they give up the donkey and the elephant.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

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

They had been sitting too long to be able to stand up easily.

They spun and flung their rifles up.

They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.

They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.

They will give suggestions that can be worked up into field procedures.

They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.

They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.

`` They found something else up there '', she said half-aloud to the empty room.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

They must be freezing up there now.

They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.

They bent over yellowed prayerbooks and looked up only to watch the teacher.

They picked up sticks and hurled them at the girl.