Sentence examples for taken a pair from inspiring English sources

Argentina argues that it has already taken a pair of steps that ought to be enough to win a resumption of credit, default or no default.

At the other end of the product life-cycle, the company's assessment showed that 45% of water usage happens after consumers have taken a pair of jeans home.

Only with reluctance, Parker confessed that he'd taken a pair of pliers to his own Gold Glove award, lately voted to him as one of the nine best defensive players of his league, and wrenched loose the prize.

IN HIS scrupulously modest office in Broadcasting House, the vast, art-deco headquarters of the BBC, Tony Hall looks relaxed for a man who has just taken a pair of shears to a national treasure.

She had strangled the boys but in one case she had taken a pair of broken scissors and made light cuts to his genitals after the little child was dead.

A resident of Devon, Rozamund Perrin, recently came home to find someone had taken a pair of her frilly knickers off the washing line and pushed them through the letterbox with the anonymous note: "It is totally inappropiate [sic] for this type of garment to be displayed opposite the village primary school".

JACQUELINE KENNEDY took a pair of valuable antique tables.

I would take a pair of the snaking elongated taillamps in my house as art.

Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.

They approached Talabani, bowed deferentially, and took a pair of dark suits from the bags.

Anyway, I did try to fix the radio myself, took a pair of tweezers......