Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] take the [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 | Mum I do n't know , I 'll just take the chance , they wo n't like that . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd rather take the law into my own hands . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd rather take the loss myself than for people to get you know rotten stuff . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I went to this game and although I probably do n't deserve to get a ticket I will probably take the opportunity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At other times you may knowingly take the risk . |
| 14 | You should also take the candidate into account by arranging appointments so that waiting time is kept to a minimum . |
| 15 | If you are planning to have windows replaced anyway for maintenance purposes , you should obviously take the opportunity to have sealed-unit double glazing fitted as standard . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , she 'd probably take the prize , ’ conceded Ashenden with a weary grin . |
| 17 | For example , in a narrow town or terrace house where the front door opens directly into a corridor-like space , you could either take the wall down altogether , or make an arch going into the living room , or take the wall down to seating level , literally making a seating ledge . |
| 18 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 19 | Transport into central London from here is relatively straightforward : you can either take the East London Tube line from Surrey Docks station ( five minutes ' walk away ) or take the river bus from the pier right outside the marina when the route reopens later this season . |
| 20 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 21 | We may indeed take the depth of the autobiographer 's image of a grandparent as one measure of the quality of their mutual relationship — and an especially important one , for on such relationships between earlier generations the insights which autobiography offers are unique . |
| 22 | We 'll just take the blame for it . |
| 23 | We 'll then , I 'll then invite a speaker from each region on the C E C statement and following on from that we 'll then take the vote on the statement and comp twenty nine and motion three nine six . |
| 24 | ‘ And you think we might just take the opportunity to suggest such a thing . ’ |
| 25 | Now we could just take the pattern of responses out of there as being some classes . |
| 26 | But we could still take the minibus and just take three or four . |
| 27 | We shall also take the opportunity to make some ground-clearing observations of a rather wider methodological import in order to provide an appropriate context for much of what follows . |
| 28 | For the purposes of this chapter , we shall simply take the arithmetic mean ; the d among the young is +0.042 , among the old is +0.094 , so the average effect ( coefficient b ) is +0.068 . |
| 29 | We shall therefore take the flux density in the gap to be equal to B0 . |
| 30 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |