Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] take [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 2 | Perhaps I should always take the case for his solution as being 20% stronger than it would otherwise appear to me to be . |
| 3 | I should definitely take the paste down . |
| 4 | Perhaps I might just take the chance to say that if there is a local group that would like to hospitality to people from developing countries that are at the Institute , we always welcome that sort of opportunity and invitation . |
| 5 | I 'll just take a drink , then I 'll be off . " |
| 6 | I 'll just take a peep . ’ |
| 7 | One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’ |
| 8 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 9 | Fine I 'll just take a note of that , thank you . |
| 10 | Mum I do n't know , I 'll just take the chance , they wo n't like that . |
| 11 | Now , sir , I 'll just take an impression of your penis here There was some more budget-balancing over the question of She-She 's underwear . |
| 12 | But I 'll always take a chance with players if I think they are right , and this lad really impressed me . ’ |
| 13 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 14 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd rather take a taxi , ’ she said in a stilted voice . |
| 16 | In the circumstances you outline , I agree I 'd rather take a chance on you than on most people . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd rather take the law into my own hands . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd rather take the loss myself than for people to get you know rotten stuff . |
| 19 | ‘ The time has come for me to get it sorted out — and I 'd happily take a year out if it meant I 'd have a few more years later on . |
| 20 | I shall therefore take the liberty of treating her as a character , not utterly different in kind , though of course belonging to a very different social species , from Vic Wilcox . |
| 21 | I assume that what you are hoping for is not merely a simple yes or a no , but some discussion of the matter , and I shall therefore take the liberty of presenting the evidence in some detail and at some length . |
| 22 | I went to this game and although I probably do n't deserve to get a ticket I will probably take the opportunity . |
| 23 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 24 | At the moment I can only take the family thing so far : I can talk about certain things , but then everything becomes a blank because I still feel too close to it all . |
| 25 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |
| 26 | which will really take a lot of time . |
| 27 | Although you may normally take the view that there is never a best time for spending money , retirement planning is different in that sooner or later you will need , or want , to make certain purchases — or pay off outstanding commitments , such as a mortgage . |
| 28 | At other times you may knowingly take the risk . |
| 29 | You should also take the candidate into account by arranging appointments so that waiting time is kept to a minimum . |
| 30 | You should always take every opportunity to study fish , be they barbel or any other species , when you come upon them unawares in their natural environment . |