Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] take [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 2 | I 'll take quite a few egg sandwiches . |
| 3 | ‘ Well I promised my old man I would take home a feed for him tonight . |
| 4 | If I can take home a hundred and twenty quid well with my seventy pound a week pension two hundred quid . |
| 5 | It was during this turbulent time that her bulimia nervosa , which would take nearly a decade to overcome , began . |
| 6 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |
| 7 | You will take home a goodie-bag , worth about £20 , containing all the materials you have used during the day , including brushes and stencils , along with several helpful leaflets . |
| 8 | What do we do , you must take away everything that 's in the brackets , so we take away a twenty , so that 's the same as a minus twenty and then we 'll take away a minus one , signs are the same so it 's add one . |
| 9 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 10 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 11 | No one would take home a boy who looked like that , so pale and delicate . |
| 12 | When those same pensioners understand that blanket commitments of that type will erode the extra money available to help the poorer end , they may take rather a different view . |
| 13 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 14 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 15 | But er it should take about an hour , hour and a half . |
| 16 | It might take just a decision for St Albans oldest of the country by having changed the word received to . |
| 17 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 18 | Informix says it 'll take around a year to productise SNI 's data dictionary , even though ERMS is already implemented for versions of the database which SNI supplies to customers under an existing marketing agreement the two have . |
| 19 | It 'll take around a year to see if the drug does help reduce the side effects of radiotherapy . |
| 20 | If they lose , it 'll take about a year to recover the cost of the inquiry in 6 penny tolls . |
| 21 | ‘ It 'll take about an hour and a half . |
| 22 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 23 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |
| 24 | ‘ And , curiously enough , it would take only a comparatively small rise in wage rates to make an enormous impact on the problem . ’ |
| 25 | It would take only a minor leap of faith , a moment of transcendence , to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back . |
| 26 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 27 | In Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 , the first year 's rent was cut by £240,000 because two floors of the building were not needed by Neville Russell , and it would take about a year to find a suitable person to take a sub-lease for those two floors . |
| 28 | But , even then , its temperature would be so low that it would take about a million million million million million million million million million million million years ( 1 with sixty-six zeros after it ) to evaporate completely . |
| 29 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 30 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |