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They took up the task of proving or disproving the existence of linguistic relativity experimentally and published their findings in 1954.
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They made it, killed every last one of the Krauts, took the village on schedule.
They took Jesus's body, then, and wrapped it in winding-clothes with the spices ; ;
They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.
When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.
`` They took it away, overalls or something ''.
They told police the intruders took a mink coat worth $700, a black Persian lamb jacket worth $450 ; ;
They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.
They took their chief meal in a common refectory or dining hall at 3 P. M., up to which hour they usually fasted.
They took refuge on an island at Thorney, on the Hertfordshire Colne, where they were blockaded and were ultimately forced to submit.
They took Almudévar, Gurrea de Gállego, and Zuera, besieging Zaragoza itself by the end of May.
They took cover in difficult forested terrain, allowing the warriors time and space to mass without detection.
They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.
They captured a boat carrying 120 barrels of flour out of Havana, and shortly thereafter took 100 barrels of wine from a sloop out of Bermuda.
They feel that the Western-Cape based Afrikaners — whose ancestors did not trek eastwards or northwards — took advantage of the republican Boers ' destitution following the Anglo-Boer War and later attempted to assimilate the Boers into a new politically based cultural label as " Afrikaners ".
They took the side of the Senate in most conflicts with the Princeps, invariably viewing him as being in the wrong.
They took a detour and built a new bridge over the river, just outside of Tavistock.
They took their honeymoon in Ireland.
They used this, yet it burned for eight days ( the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready ).
They have been described as ' a sort of Via Dolorosa in miniature '... since little or no rebuilding took place on the site of the great basilica.
They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).
He admitted, “ I took over a last-place team, and I kept them there .” They did indeed end up in the basement with a 17 – 57 – 6 record for only 40 points.
They took on the vastly improved Chicago Blackhawks in the Conference Finals, winning in five games.
They tunnelled through the walls of the neighbouring buildings in order to evacuate the Post Office without coming under fire and took up a new position in 16 Moore Street.
They offered the job of making their films to D. W. Griffith, an unimportant actor and playwright, who took up the job, and found he had a gift for it.
They took a prominent part in the battles by which the Prussians forced the line of the Jizera and in the Battle of Jičín.
They and up
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 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 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 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.
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.
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