Take his description of the giant diesel excavators that worked the site: "They were voracious, incautious, ignorant and unstoppable."

Security officers took the man's description from the shaken tourist while Goldie slipped quietly away in the confusion.

Take his description of himself: "My predecessors all had long beards.

After an hour, they took my description of the black man, carefully photographed the corpse and cleaned the area up.

Take his description of the multi-layered dance-pop style known as "the new jack swing" that he is credited with having invented three years ago.

"We took Laura's sparse description and expanded it cinematically."

If we take your very good description about this a step further, from the CPU perspective, multithreadding is pretty straight forward.

Thorn said he took Thomas's description of what led to the incident into account.

Take, for example, his description of Scotland and the Scotch.

We tried not to take his description personally, especially since it fit us so perfectly.