1.   No collections were taken, but just next to the exit a small receptacle awaited contributions to help pay the rent.

2.   The committee has given permission for a bucket collection to be taken on behalf of the Matthew trust fund at the end of the Wednesday morning session.

3.   As time went on, instead of taking up collections, the judges formed the association and required new judges to make a donation to the fund.

4.   At Unesco, Manhart said it would have been physically impossible to take the collection out of the country.

5.   Azria tried to take the collection in an upscale direction in hopes of attracting a new, more affluent customer, and sometimes it worked.

6.   Before each fashion season began he would take collections from various designers on a tour of cities like Detroit, San Francisco and Chicago.

7.   A few times when employees have been burned out of their homes, staff members took up collections for them.

8.   A collection was taken up for Robinson, but he declined the monetary gift, instead asking for a country-cured ham.

9.   Across Texas, churches took special collections and corporations wrote big checks.

10.   After working at the Congressional Research Service and the Pentagon, he took his collection to the Indochina Archive at Berkeley.