Example sentences of "just take a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I believe everyone has innate creativity ’ she confided in me , ‘ but with some it just takes a little bit of coaxing before it will surface ’ .
2 Just takes a lot of .
3 The mowing used to take a week , now it just takes a couple of days .
4 It just takes a smile or a joke , and Kriss Akabusi has won them round .
5 he just wo n't go he just takes a , but he 's fine
6 The guy did it know what I mean , but just takes a hell of a lot longer to mix like .
7 Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’
8 Should I just take a peek through the windows of those double doors — see if I can see him — Vern 's dad ?
9 If you find your throat is dry and you need some water just take a few sips to moisten your mouth .
10 Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week .
11 One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’
12 Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work !
13 I think if you 'll excuse me I 'll just take a little nap .
14 Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back .
15 That 's next Wednesday , if we do n't get enough we 'll probably just take a car , but , but anyway , there 's going to be a lot going on actually on this .
16 well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes
17 I 'll just take a drink , then I 'll be off . "
18 ‘ Well , it is n't the sort of place you can just take a look at . ’
19 ‘ Let's just take a look first and wait till we see what 's inside . ’
20 And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas .
21 Let's just take a break for a minute .
22 I 'll just take a peep . ’
23 I would just take a It seems to me that quite clearly that a new settlement in the A sixty four corridor south , would stimulate migration at levels which would not otherwise have taken place and that is the key objection to it .
24 It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole .
25 Why do n't you hop up on to the examination couch and I 'll just take a quick listen to baby 's heart and take your blood pressure , then afterwards I 'm sure Sister will be only too happy to show you around our labour ward and let you take a look at the facilities we have available .
26 Fine I 'll just take a note of that , thank you .
27 Why do n't you just take a case of it , one of those cases home , one of the empty empty cases ?
28 I do n't care , did I just take a carton of that ?
29 Let me just take a coffee down to er .
30 So erm and I , I ca n't just take a flexi-day because I 'm already , I 've already got leave to use .
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