Sentence examples for instructions took from inspiring English sources

In all, the instructions took two hours.

These instructions took no account of MI5 and MI6 officers' responsibilities under the UN Convention Against Torture.

In London the company's court of directors, though it decided that Raffles had contravened instructions, took no action.

They came out on borrowed big-wave boards and, following instructions, took up positions in a deep-water channel near the edge of the reef.

For sheer poundage Adam Levin's 1,000-page The Instructions took the prize for weightiest first book and the most experimental.

The defense secretary's instructions took effect with the start of the new year and were directed at only some of the 23,000 employees at the Pentagon.

Their instructions: take apart the game or the gun and write directions for assembly and disassembly.

At OpenDNS.com, the step-by-step instructions take all of two minutes to complete.

The other experiments involved directorial instructions: take a fast, harsh coupling and do it softly; during a tense encounter, imagine someone occasionally blowing on your hair.

The best picture books reward children and parents alike, the weakest convey parental instructions: take your Adderall, love your little brother, always wear a helmet.

I would be called over to a House member's desk in those days before texting and be handed a note, with quick instructions: "Take this to Barbara Jordan".