Sentence examples for took a collection from inspiring English sources

The Rev. Andrew Cosioleti, a visiting priest, took a collection for the victims of the fire and their families, and mentioned them several times.

Over the last two years, Bridget Dunlap, a former yoga instructor turned Houston bar impresario and owner, took a collection of broken-down homes, gutted them and turned them into cozy bars each with a distinct personality.

So they took a collection of healthy people into long corridors and out onto sidewalks and gave them set amounts of time to travel about 250 meters.

This was My Years with General Motors, written for Alfred Sloan, the business visionary who took a collection of car and car-part companies and built it into the greatest industrial machine the world had ever seen.

We took a collection and got him even more money than he needed.

The designers took a collection of approximately 60 redundant computer monitors and arranged them in a creative disarray.

"In the middle of all this, they take a collection," he said.

These are people coming to you for help and you take a collection?

Loria plans to take a collection of Expos' personnel with him to Florida, including Manager Jeff Torborg.

In Ferguson, Jesse Jackson was warmly greeted, and then booed when he tried to take a collection for his organisation.

The first part of her solution consisted of taking a collection from the members to hire a bus to bring them to the country.