Example sentences of "[modal v] take i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson feels ‘ a very great aversion ’ to Slinkton as soon as he sees him : ‘ His hair , which was elaborately brushed and oiled , was parted straight up the middle ; and he presented this parting to the clerk , exactly … as if he had said , in so many words : ‘ You must take me , if you please , my friend , just as I show myself . |
| 2 | ‘ You must take me as you find me ’ , ‘ A leopard ca n't change his spots ’ and other maxims take an essentially pessimistic view about the malleability of behaviour . |
| 3 | ‘ You must take me as you find me ’ means ‘ I 'm going to carry on and behave as I always do even if it does n't suit you . ’ |
| 4 | You must take me for a fool ! |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll fight them , but if we get your ship back for you , you must take me back to England . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're ordering me around again , if that 's what you mean , ’ she replied , ‘ and if you think I 'm going to trot obediently upstairs and take off all my clothes you must take me for a fool . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't speak for others , Doctor , and you must take me as you find me , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 8 | Progress over the next two months or so should take me back to climbing . |
| 9 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , this should take me about another fortnight . ’ |
| 11 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 12 | It should take me twenty-five or thirty days |
| 13 | His mother might take me away to live with her . |
| 14 | She says she might take me to see them . |
| 15 | Shane beamed : ‘ After all this , it might take me a year to get my breath back . ’ |
| 16 | might take me down . |
| 17 | You might take me there and then run away and leave me ! " said the tiger fearfully . |
| 18 | If I 'm in bed , it might take me half a minute to wake up . |
| 19 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 20 | it might take me by surprise |
| 21 | ‘ If they catch up with me now , ’ he mused , ‘ I suppose that 's where they 'll take me … ’ |
| 22 | I ask him if he 'll take me over to the Lennox 's in his car . |
| 23 | I ca n't afford it but they say I 've got to pay it so they 'll take me to court . |
| 24 | The child , now turning a smiling face towards Aggie , said , ‘ I 'll stand on the chair and that 'll take me half-way up , but you 'll have to do the rest , as I ca n't reach . |
| 25 | " Then you 'll take me into the organization ? " |
| 26 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , as we 're in the presence of two students — postgraduate students — I daresay you 'll take me to be sucking up , but the times are rather interesting , do n't you find ? |
| 28 | They 'll take me there and you can come too . ’ |
| 29 | If I go twice as fast , it 'll take me one over two , so that 's a half as long . |
| 30 | On Father 's Day I think what he 'd like best is to go shopping and then he 'll take me out , to Dunstable Downs to see the gliders . ’ |