Sentence examples for about the taking from inspiring English sources

Bulimia is about the taking in and the purging.

2. Celebrate your win For me games, particularly at Christmas, are all about the taking part.

"Either I'll do Schalke – or Schalke does me," the iconic general manager Rudi Assauer said about the taking the reigns of one of the Bundesliga's most nervous and jumpy clubs back in 1981.

I like the opening titles and the music, and presentation has been friendly and informative, if a little relentlessly chauvinistic, although it was ever thus at Olympic Games, where Baron de Coubertin's thing about the taking part not the winning is traditionally jettisoned before the sound of the last opening ceremony firework has faded.

On the strength of having recently read Annie Proulx's The Shipping News – a big, sweepingly beautiful observation of a man subtly unfolding himself in a wild Newfoundland winter (might also be a useful read for cooling yourself down on a hot day), Barkskins (4th Estate), according to the blurb at the back, is about the taking down of the world's forests.

As someone born with a face for radio and for whom that patronising old saw about the taking part in sport being more important than winning may well have been coined, it was not a task I tackled with anything approaching relish.

He was talking about the generals taking him out".

There's something about the city taking back its spaces".

The planners received feedback about the actions taken on the plans.

Talk story about the mantels taken from the Ritz-Carlton.

We can't talk about the give unless we know about the take".