Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 2 | I opened the desk and slowly I took out the box and opened it . |
| 3 | Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub . |
| 4 | Instinctively I take off my shoes and feel the springy grass beneath my bare feet . |
| 5 | The food and drink were finished , the disco was dying out and so the cabaret began and was well received but the mouth was dry and in need of watering so everyone took off to the pub . |
| 6 | So everyone takes avoiding action . |
| 7 | ‘ Clive said he did n't need a crew , only someone to take care of the meals — ’ She drew her palm across her forehead . |
| 8 | I was ashamed ; and thenceforward I took my turn with the rest — to my benefit . |
| 9 | Gently I took hold of the door handle and moved it . |
| 10 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 11 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 12 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 13 | ‘ , ‘ Perhaps I took it all a little too seriously … |
| 14 | Or perhaps I took up my Arabic textbook . |
| 15 | So I took the book down and there was my speech ; and the response to it was extraordinary . |
| 16 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 17 | So I took my letter , sealed in an envelope , back to the newsagent . |
| 18 | So I took it with me on the Hiroshima mission . |
| 19 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 20 | So I took it upon myself to tell her , old nosey-parker that I am . |
| 21 | Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ? |
| 22 | ‘ Then I went to the States to record and tour with another band and , when I returned , a bassist friend had left Cozy Powell 's ‘ Hammer ’ band when Cozy was charting regularly , and so I took over from him . |
| 23 | So I took her through that holiday in greater detail . |
| 24 | ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’ |
| 25 | So I took out an insurance policy against a possible breakdown in the production . |
| 26 | So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time . |
| 27 | ‘ But when I got behind the typewriter I thought , ‘ That ai n't gon na make a very good piece ’ and so I took the piss out of her something rotten . |
| 28 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 29 | So I took it . |
| 30 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |