Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legacies of these origins have persisted and there has never been agreement on the nature of international affairs , on the proper methods for studying them , or on the range of elements which theories of them must take into account . |
| 2 | Let Ephraim Cook keep the business in order for Amabel and Gemma , and whoever came after them must take care of themselves . |
| 3 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 4 | I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared . |
| 5 | But one day I may take you at your word , ’ she said darkly . |
| 6 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
| 7 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 8 | I may take you back to the Bab el Khalk and ask you . ’ |
| 9 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 10 | Although agreeing in principle with the views expressed by Jim Perrin in his article ‘ Range War ’ ( May issue ) , I feel I must take issue with one or two of his conclusions , which I think require further examination . |
| 11 | Sir : I must take issue with Janet Daley 's article on a supposed connection between poverty and language ( 4 October ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Good God , I must take holy orders immediately . ’ |
| 13 | But one day I must take my courage in both hands and go back to visit |
| 14 | At last I felt I must take action , and I went to the Establishment Branch to ask for a transfer . |
| 15 | As Leslie was the only officer in the missing plane ( ironically the transport aircraft was a Stirling — the same name as his birthplace ) , I decided that I must take the lead among the families . |
| 16 | ‘ I must take advice , ’ said Sir George , stubborn and suspicious . |
| 17 | ‘ Now , James , I must take issue with you there . ’ |
| 18 | To clean the water I must take the dirt out . |
| 19 | ‘ Then I must take Donald home . ’ |
| 20 | I must take no notice of their politeness or kindness which was designed to trap me into giving information . |
| 21 | I must take issue , however . |
| 22 | I must take it off at once and give it to Donna so that she can rinse it … ’ |
| 23 | I must take the blame for thinking of this one . |
| 24 | I must take issue with your article on Fish to begin with in June . |
| 25 | After all these years and after the last time , I feel I must take things easy . ’ |
| 26 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 27 | There are many people who I 'd like to thank for their support and help , and for those I am not able to contact personally , I must take this opportunity to say thanks . |
| 28 | I must take issue with the April ‘ 92 article Everything you wanted to know about Koi |
| 29 | ‘ Oh dear God — I must take your name in vain . |
| 30 | ‘ I must take it across to the eight twelves . ’ |