Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite prepared to do this journey alone , but my mother , who had given me every encouragement although well aware of the risks I was running , insisted I should take a companion . |
| 2 | Thought I 'd take a trip . ’ |
| 3 | I thought I 'd take a break . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I meant we should take a trip to Hadrian 's wall . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I thought we might take a holiday in Canada , ’ Mark said . |
| 6 | I thought we might take a tour round the surrounding hills and make sure there were no hidden surprises . |
| 7 | Rather than examine just one of Tony Revell 's acoustics , we thought we 'd take a look at two instead . |
| 8 | But she knew it would take a while before the immeasurable hunger receded within her . |
| 9 | Goibniu remembered that Gnomes were reportedly extremely greedy , but said they would take a look at the designs now , if the Gnomes were quite ready , thus galvanising the Gnomes into anxious industry , resulting in much unpacking of knapsacks and unrolling of parchments and remarks such as , ‘ Who 's got the plan of the turquoise bracelet ? ’ and ‘ Why did we bring along four sketches for the everyday silver tiara ? ’ and ‘ Flaherty 's sitting on the Coronation sceptre ! ’ |
| 10 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 11 | He said it would take a week . |
| 12 | Rufus , however , suggested he should take a look , just to be on the safe side . |
| 13 | Rumour in Adelaide suggested he will take a year off and return in 1994 to head a new team run by Honda , which will make its own chassis as well as engines . |