Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 2 | I offered my profuse apologies but all she could say was ‘ Can ye no take care o ’ yer dug ! ’ |
| 3 | What are the tax provisions for transferring a business to your children on retirement , and how can you best take advantage of the rules ? |
| 4 | Does she ever take shit from the girls ? |
| 5 | ‘ And do you sometimes take heroin ? ’ |
| 6 | Can we just take check then there how that leaves us with our recurrent recruitment program . |
| 7 | Do they usually take time like this ? |
| 8 | Let him also take action against the Economic League , which prevents that right from being exercised by many people . |
| 9 | He never sought to crush you , nor did he ever take refuge in insult or invective . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Will he now take action to reactivate our shipyards so that the nation may once again fund the sort of merchant fleet that should be the priority of a maritime nation , and put the seamen back to work ? ’ . |
| 11 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |