Example sentences of "you [modal v] take [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to explain my problem with the monoglot at window five , but the ticket lady just shook her head and said : ‘ You must take another ticket . |
| 2 | You must take this opportunity , Esther , ’ he urged . |
| 3 | ‘ You must take this note to Madame de Mauban , ’ I said , ‘ and tomorrow , at two o'clock in the morning , you must open the front door of the new castle . |
| 4 | ‘ You must take this form to the office round the corner . ’ |
| 5 | it said if you are on the dole or unemployed or whatever you must take this form down , because he 's entitled |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've got two other reasons for why you should take that money . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you should take some soap and water to your ears , ’ Miss Beard said acidly . |
| 8 | DO YOU sometimes feel you should take more exercise ? |
| 9 | ‘ You should take more care of yourself , ’ she said . |
| 10 | If you say , ‘ I keep thinking you might take some LSD and have a bad trip and get scrambled-egg brains and never be the same again and I really love you the way you are , ’ that 's fine because you 've confined yourself to what you know and what you feel . |
| 11 | And what you tell me and , again when your survey you 'll take all age groups you see ? |
| 12 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 13 | You 'd expect the productivity to fall would n't you , if you were actually operating a fax service because you 'd save , you 'd take more time to monitor it |
| 14 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
| 15 | ‘ Adam , if you 'd be good enough to finish what you 're doing , perhaps you could take this weapon from me , since I 'm sure you 're more accustomed to guns than I am . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You could take any keeper in Britain — there 's not one we would rather have between the post tonight more than him . |
| 17 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 18 | ‘ But then , I might have known you would take that attitude . |
| 19 | And you would take this book and you 'd put a hard piece of it was a kind of a a cardboard that would n't absorb water I 've forgotten what the thing was made of . |
| 20 | That does n't necessarily mean you will take more time to get around the golf course . |
| 21 | ‘ You can take that back , ’ he said . |
| 22 | If you think the position there is better well of course you can take that position . |
| 23 | ‘ You can take that home . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So , now you can take that coat off and come and sit opposite me here and put that satchel you 're gripping so decisively there . |
| 25 | You can take that tin that you got in er you can take that tin as a pencil case that you got pardon ? |
| 26 | You can take that tin that you got in er you can take that tin as a pencil case that you got pardon ? |
| 27 | Elinor , her arms draped around the necks of two paramedics , said , ‘ You can take that thing right away ! ’ |
| 28 | You can take that rubbish off that chair and wipe it , will you ? ’ |
| 29 | To a point at least , you can take each moment of inner soul searching as a sign that you are winning . |
| 30 | what , what I wondered was if you can take some bleach down , I think there 's probably some down in the loo downstairs , and at least put some of that into , can you do that ? |