Example sentences of "if [pron] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not if I take a quarter of a inch . |
| 2 | Mind if I take a look ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mind if I take a look ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do you mind if I take a shower first ? ’ |
| 5 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you mind if I take a seat ? ’ began Blanche . |
| 7 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 8 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 9 | Swimming is regarded as one of the best all-round forms of exercise , but a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers shows you could be at risk from stomach upsets and skin rashes if you take a dip in dirty public swimming pools . |
| 10 | Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know . |
| 11 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 12 | So if you take a proportion , then what happens ? |
| 13 | But if you take a proportion of it , you 're only offered that proportion again . |
| 14 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 15 | If you take a sample er , of ce the cera cereblis fluid during the course of acute bacteria meningitis you will find it 's drowning , drowning , not due the fact that it 's an organism , but present , being due to the presence of puss cells . |
| 16 | If you take a look at the date of the file CPU-INFO.EXE , you 'll see that if was produced in 1987 , which is a little before the introduction of the Intel 80486 processor . |
| 17 | P.S. I really hate to mention this , but if you take a look around you , I think you 'll notice that you 've blown your four-set clause . |
| 18 | So what I think , that 's another thing about this , I have erm , there 's something about the plainness of design that I like if it 's erm the things that have been done that are erm like Adobe typefaces or Bertol typefaces , that are really beautifully , you know , sandpapered and finished to me are boring and when you get into , if you take a look at the schedule that A T F produce typefaces in it 's not unlike it , I mean the modern equivalent is the Font Bureau do 'em and try to sell 'em . |
| 19 | If you take a shape from the STANDARD section in to the ORIGINAL section , the points for that shape will of course already exist . |
| 20 | If you take a degree in English Literature or International Relations , you will do so with the intention of learning about the subject . |
| 21 | You will wonder no more if you stay here and , if you take a fancy to the bed you sleep in , Signora Silvana , who speaks excellent English , will sell it to you ! |
| 22 | If you take a film of this , you can easily tell whether it is being run forward or backward . |
| 23 | and if you take a film of of erm Hitler and er people of that ilk in the second world war and you analyse almost frame by frame you 'll see that and count the number of non-symmetrical hand gestures you will find that they 're quite high as a percentage . |
| 24 | so there 's a lot of scope , by , in other words , if you take a multiple , if you did , if you know four closes and you only use two , you might get away with it |
| 25 | ‘ What about your business … wo n't it suffer if you take a holiday ? ’ |
| 26 | If you take a train ride into any of our major cities you will see thousands of long narrow gardens in serried ranks on either side of the track . |
| 27 | If you take a lump sum , the amount by which your pension will be reduced is mainly determined by your age . |
| 28 | The turn can be speeded up if you take a step back on the board and depress the windward rail . |
| 29 | It is hard to relinquish status and income , both of which are like to fall if you take a step down or sideways or you stop on the career ladder . |
| 30 | If you take a time exposure of the stars with a static camera you just get streaks , because of the Earth 's movement , and I should make the device follow the stars at the correct speed , you can get an awful lot of stars that 's completely invisible to the naked eye . |