Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just take a drink , then I 'll be off . " |
| 2 | I 'll just take a peep . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fine I 'll just take a note of that , thank you . |
| 6 | But I 'll always take a chance with players if I think they are right , and this lad really impressed me . ’ |
| 7 | But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me . |
| 8 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd rather take a taxi , ’ she said in a stilted voice . |
| 10 | In the circumstances you outline , I agree I 'd rather take a chance on you than on most people . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The time has come for me to get it sorted out — and I 'd happily take a year out if it meant I 'd have a few more years later on . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't take a bet on it , if I were you ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't take a holiday in June — you must be out of your mind ! |
| 14 | And ask her about the water heater cos if I ca n't take a shower I will stink ! |
| 15 | ‘ I will not take a penny of collection money to pay for Jennifer , ’ she said . |
| 16 | I will not take a point of order . |
| 17 | I wo n't take a minute . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I wo n't take a penny from you for visiting the Princess . ’ |
| 19 | No , I can not take a point of order until after the statement . |
| 20 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 21 | ‘ Somebody like [ the agency head ] is n't going to … lay down the rules of where you should take a stat , or where you should n't take a stat . |
| 22 | ‘ Jake 'd have wanted me to see her right ; but she 'll never take a penny piece off me … ’ |
| 23 | In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style . |
| 24 | ‘ Not in the wine bar , though , ’ she insisted hastily ; she could n't take a chance on Luke walking in . |
| 25 | You could n't take a boat out in that wild sea alone . |
| 26 | ‘ You could always take a dog . ’ |
| 27 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 28 | And I , if it 'll make it mandatory then we , we 've got all sorts of other forms that you ca n't , you 're running out of forms and you ca n't take a photocopy on . |
| 29 | Which means , that at the end of the day , before reaching your final decision , you must hear what people are saying , and so you ca n't take a decision as it were , a final decision about a closure , and then go out to consultation . |
| 30 | Well , as they said , why did you join the Army if you ca n't take a joke ? |