Sentence examples for were takes from inspiring English sources
verb
Or control, with or without force. transitive To get into one's hands, possession,
Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.
That is, x, as it were, takes power over s out of y's hands.
Imagining how different things were takes a leap of faith, though a perusal of these now-historical pictures should help.
You need all those things to happen, and they need to still fulfill an incredible performance moment, but you know, it's not just...that happened, there were takes and cuts and discussions, and we shot very quickly in preparation to capture it in a very documentary-type way.
Micrographs were takes with a Zeiss Axioskop-2 microscope (Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany) equipped with an Olympus DP10 CCD camera (Tokyo, Japan).
Micrographs were takes with an Olympus BX51 microscope equipped with an Optronics camera.
Attendees were taken aback.
People were taken aback".
