Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] take a " in BNC.
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1 | A local authority may seek to take a child into care where : |
2 | Even if he is walking well , you may need to take a wheelchair in case he gets tired , or you can plan the outing so that you walk short distances between benches in the street or local park . |
3 | Within the first year of residence you should make arrangements to obtain a Northern Ireland licence and you may need to take a driving test before a licence can be granted . |
4 | If you fall into any of the above categories , you may need to take a daily multi-vitamin and mineral pill as your nutritional insurance policy ! |
5 | For example , students may opt to take a specialist module in Graphics for Screen Media , the objectives of which include critical study of the application of graphic design to electronic publications and investigation of the design initiation and design development procedures for electronic publications . |
6 | ‘ Strange you should want to take a look at this place . |
7 | If a receiving office makes use of a referral from an originating office then one should assume that the originating office will take his fee from his client and the receiving office should seek to take a fee , either finders fee or fee for professional assistance , from his client or contact . |
8 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
9 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
10 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
11 | They clearly felt he should have taken a more manly approach to the brain tumour . |
12 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
13 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
14 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
15 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
16 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
17 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
18 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
19 | His trip should have taken a month . |
20 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
21 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
22 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
23 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
24 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
25 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
26 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
27 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
28 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
29 | It must have taken a long time . |
30 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |