Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'll always take a chance with players if I think they are right , and this lad really impressed me . ’ |
| 2 | If the client has a salary in excess of forty-five thousand , you still take the seventy-five per cent off the forty-five , but you could then take a third of whatever is over that forty-five . |
| 3 | But you should never take the easy option . |
| 4 | At the Pont d'Espagne the road ends , but you can then take a reasonably comfortable path , for about three-quarters of an hour , up through the tumbled rock and ailing pine trees — they seem to be fighting a losing battle against the colonies of grey lichen — to the Lac de Gaube , at an altitude of a trifle under 6000 feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Jake 'd have wanted me to see her right ; but she 'll never take a penny piece off me … ’ |
| 6 | The response from Medau teachers has been good but we can still take a few more . |
| 7 | well we know I shall go through the fields , but we can still take the short er cut through the estate up Bedford Road , by the cemetery |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but we could only take a certain amount of weight . ’ |
| 9 | But we could still take the minibus and just take three or four . |
| 10 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 11 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 12 | But it might just take the form of going to the bar to buy drinks for everyone . ’ |
| 13 | But it 'll only take a couple of days . ’ |
| 14 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 15 | ‘ Completing your dog-training course could take a couple of months but it could also take a couple of years because of the waiting period . ’ |