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 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd rather take a taxi , ’ she said in a stilted voice . |
| 9 | In the circumstances you outline , I agree I 'd rather take a chance on you than on most people . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 12 | ‘ Jake 'd have wanted me to see her right ; but she 'll never take a penny piece off me … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You could always take a dog . ’ |
| 15 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 16 | One is married already , one has declared that she will never take a husband , and the third has two suitors after her as it is . |
| 17 | You can also take a conversation where all the sentences are complete and go through and make all the deletions which make it natural . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it is n't the sort of place you can just take a look at . ’ |
| 19 | Even within the work environment you can often take a lift rather than use stairs . |
| 20 | We 'll also take a look at a popular shareware alternative , McAfee VirusScan . |
| 21 | To , well to run them now , they 'll still take a week to come back , even if they do run them today , |
| 22 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 23 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
| 24 | And if she flung Rupert and Ianthe together they would probably take a dislike to each other . |
| 25 | They will then take a ferry to France to visit Paris before flying to Honolulu via San Francisco . |
| 26 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 27 | Uk Brother owners please note — the next time you phone Manchester , be thankful that there is someone to answer your problem , even if it may occasionally take a couple of days when all the staff are at a show . |
| 28 | Well it might just take a couple of hours to print out a complete set of statements for two hundred customers . |
| 29 | It 'll only take a couple of minutes — what I 've got to say . ’ |
| 30 | But it 'll only take a couple of days . ’ |