Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 2 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 3 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ added my mother hastily , as though she feared that I might take the chance to postpone the ceremony in order to accommodate the philadelphus , ‘ chrysanthemums are more reliable . |
| 4 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 5 | I knew that I would take her back eventually , but I wanted to torment her with indifference . |
| 6 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 7 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 8 | An I such a glutton for punishment that I would take on romantic love rather than follow Germaine Greer 's example and embrace ‘ hagdom ’ , as she recommends in her new book The Change ( Hamish Hamilton , £16.99 ) , and with it , a loveless old age ? |
| 9 | The physics baffles me , the philosophy bores me — but I know that I would take about seven years for me to write out all the digits in a statement of the odds against encountering another ship in Highlight . |
| 10 | I also attach a copy of my reply , from which you will see I have told Mike Templeman that I would take up his claim that he did n't have enough information on which to base an accurate estimate with you . |
| 11 | I wrote to Mrs. X to inform her that I would take her case up with Ministers at the Ministry of Defence . |
| 12 | So anyway have a look at page fifty six cos I promised you yesterday that I would take you through the verb if you were you know the things you would want to know about . |
| 13 | Thank you chairman , I think that I 'll take it easy until the chamber empty and so . |
| 14 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 15 | I can assure my hon. Friend that I shall take a close interest in this matter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Obviously , you the supporters already accept that I must take the greater challenge when it comes . |
| 18 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 19 | I FEEL that I must take issue with two stories ( Echo March 4 ) in relation to diabetes ( a ) special foods , and ( b ) specialist nurses . |
| 20 | I FEEL that I must take issue with two stories ( Echo March 4 ) in relation to diabetes ( a ) special foods , and ( b ) specialist nurses . |
| 21 | ‘ I warn you that I will take steps to prevent you ’ or ‘ I promise that I will be there on time ’ . |
| 22 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 23 | I just feel that I can take credit , or blame , for what I do and have done . |
| 24 | I had a meal out with a friend recently , and now we 've got mother into hospital for a few weeks so that I can take my husband away on holiday . |
| 25 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 26 | And give me a pair of tongs so that I can take one out of the water at a time . ’ |
| 27 | The fact that I can take pleasure in each day as it comes , that I do n't churn myself up into a state of hyperactive neuroticism ? ’ |
| 28 | The only good news and the only real cheer that I can take from today 's events is that this is the last occasion on which such an announcement will be made by this Secretary of State or by a Conservative Government . |
| 29 | Is there any message of consolation that I can take to the very bruised people in Staffordshire , who watched with pride as the 3rd battalion received its new colours in September ? |
| 30 | I find now that I can take a little comfort for acting beyond my authority and without Don Bennett 's knowledge of what I was doing . |