Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have decided that now is the time to retire as Captain and that someone else should take the helm . |
| 2 | Then someone else can take the risk and carry the blame if things go wrong . |
| 3 | Financing such payments ( which frequently would take the form of annuity payments by the firm out of its profits or an annuity contract purchased by the firm ) was never easy and reliance had to be placed on incoming partners ' immediate capital contributions . |
| 4 | There are pits down the hill , as you come into Codford , which actually would take the contents of a tanker , if it , if there was an accident . |
| 5 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 6 | Whilst he was Dean of Westminster he would devote three or four evenings a week to teaching the older boys of Westminster School : one of them remembered how he also would take the younger ones with him for walks ‘ and in that wayfaring leisure had a singular dexterity to fill those narrow vessels with a funnel … . |