Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | To yank me clear takes the sudden , strong spine |
| 2 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 3 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 4 | I rarely take equipment from one country to another , and never if there is a voltage difference as with the United States ( 110 volts ) and Europe ( 240 volts ) . |
| 5 | At the end of the rue Victorie , past the Café du Coin , was a road I rarely took alone , and never with Didier . |
| 6 | ‘ Warning you , ’ I tell her as I slowly take my hand away from her mouth . |
| 7 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 8 | Once I was talking alone to Lucy in a corner , laughing together and , as I impulsively took one of her hands in both of mine , I heard a sharp cry of ‘ Lucy ! |
| 9 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 10 | Actually I better take this up . |
| 11 | I better take the tab out the video otherwise he 'll erase it ! |
| 12 | Oh yeah , I better take that back . |
| 13 | It 's so hot , I better take my coat off . |
| 14 | I better take it back tomorrow had n't I ? |
| 15 | It occurred in the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office , and I personally take full responsibility for it this afternoon before the House . |
| 16 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 17 | I entirely take the Minister 's point . |
| 18 | Her analysis is a rich one and I shall rely heavily on it even though I only take two aspects of her findings . |
| 19 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 20 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 21 | As I say er I only take them when I 've got to take 'em , you understand what I mean , but I shall sit there and |
| 22 | I only take on fit guys that do n't heart-attack on me and get their family and friends down here sueing . |
| 23 | I only take up with men for what I can get out of them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 25 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 26 | Yeah , which is why I only take them once every so often which is why I only have the two because it means I can take them , you know if you 've got a family of four kids or something |
| 27 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 28 | I only took the term up because it was general conversation in the police force . |
| 29 | I only took the King ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |