Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] take a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Sir may I take a keyboard |
| 2 | May I take a passage from the last section of the article : ‘ If the ethical nucleus of culturally specific mankind is not to be lost within the framework of media globalism we need to encourage a ‘ Self-critical Regionalism ’ based on the heterogeneity and plurality of gender , ethnic background and class ’ . |
| 3 | Should I take a course ? |
| 4 | I mean , If she 'd covered her disappearance so well , why should she take a risk like that ? ’ |
| 5 | Or should one take a middle road , trying to understand what goes wrong and then deciding whether it is easier to prevent or to cure ? |
| 6 | Must we take a fund so as to avoid having our patients condemned to the lower tier of a two tier service ? |
| 7 | ‘ Should we take a walk ? ’ |
| 8 | Or should they take a hard look at themselves , try to learn something from what had happened , make the necessary changes and hope to attract more lesbians ? |
| 9 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 10 | Erm , could I take a couple of points . |
| 11 | Could you take a part which would involve the wearing of an acid-yellow loose négligée for the most part of the proceedings ? |
| 12 | Please could you take a look at the enclosed details of the PC Insurance policy and advise on whether it is O.K. |
| 13 | In her place she could n't have stood that for one moment , but neither could she take a man from his wife . |
| 14 | ‘ Ooh , could we take a closer look ? ’ |
| 15 | Would I take a seat ? |
| 16 | Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " ) |
| 17 | Shall I take a knife and tear my mother 's breast ? |
| 18 | ‘ Shall I take a look ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Shall I take a message ? ’ |
| 20 | Shall I take a bit of it ? |
| 21 | Shall I take an e no I 'll just take another tape along . |
| 22 | ‘ Fear that you might leave Czechoslovakia without first returning to your hotel , ’ he replied , then grinned wryly as he added , ‘ For the first time in my life I find that I ca n't think logically — for why would you take a train to Mariánské Láznë to leave Czechoslovakia , when you could more easily take a plane from Prague ? |
| 23 | Shall we take a trip ? |
| 24 | Now , shall we take a stroll over to the Butcher Building ? ’ |
| 25 | Shall we take a trip ? |
| 26 | Well le , shall we take a vote on the first word and then decide whether it 's a park , a sports field or a a sports park or whatever ? |
| 27 | ‘ In that case , shall we take a brief walk up on deck ? |
| 28 | ‘ Shall we take a look at your eyes , just like this . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Shall we take a detour and go and look ? ’ he suggested . |
| 30 | Shall we take a bit over for Edith ? |