Example sentences of "he [vb mod] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Briton may take a dekko , north India 's ‘ Look ! ’ ( just as , from British rule in Egypt , he may take a shufti — though one who takes a butchers has gone no further east than Bow bells and the cockney rhyming slang of a butcher 's 'ook ) . |
| 2 | Perhaps disgusted with the business , Owens retreated and wondered if he should take a day job . |
| 3 | He should take a very good look at it and , even more important , handle it . |
| 4 | Rufus , however , suggested he should take a look , just to be on the safe side . |
| 5 | Blake said to his companion that he should take a last look at the hole in time , and their escape . |
| 6 | He must take a servant with him , naturally — they knew how to get rid of the beggars . |
| 7 | He must take a Waaagh Test just like any other Goblin shaman , but he automatically adds +1 to his dice roll on the ‘ Eadbangerz Chart . |
| 8 | He must take a grip on himself . |
| 9 | He 'll take a positive interest in helping Ron Cally get a contract from Krite 's . |
| 10 | And he 's so desperate to get out he 'll take a twenty thousand pound a year pay cut . |
| 11 | And he 's so desperate to get out he 'll take a twenty thousand pound a year pay cut . |
| 12 | oh I tell ya , I got there , I buy a couple , Sally buys 'em because I , I give 'em tapes , I do n't ask him , but he 's one of these blokes unless he buys you one he 'll take a funny |
| 13 | But if the Martian truly were a little Green man , he might take a different view . |
| 14 | He wondered if he might take a walk before the others were up . |
| 15 | And he might take a personal dislike to one of nurses . |
| 16 | The originator of the tapes has clearly decided to make his tape deck pay for itself ( although I think he could take a few hints on how to eliminate unwanted hum and noise ) and the result can only be described as a rip off . |
| 17 | When Defoe wrote about the world outside Europe for an early eighteenth-century audience , he could take a much more realistic approach . |
| 18 | He gestured for her to move aside so he could take a closer look at the microphone . |
| 19 | He turned , but before he could take a step the door opened and Horatia was there . |
| 20 | He could take a fair guess how much the Prince of Wales had enjoyed the evening . |
| 21 | well the slight adjustment so to get it , get it right , that 's what you 're paid for and he 's , that 's where he was , that 's where he was brought up in the trade , and he could take a piece of cloth in his hands , he had rolls of cloth , and he said that was made such a way , the quality of this cloth is because and that |
| 22 | The children surged dogwards , with mingled shrieks of condolence and joy , only to be hurled back by my even higher-decibel commands not to venture o'er the noisome swamp , which I gallantly traversed to unwind the stupid restrainer from the poor dog 's jaws , wondering the while if he 'd take a justified revenge on the human race by biting me ; which he did n't . |
| 23 | When it got really bad , like when it cut out completely , he 'd take a wrench out and tap all the way along the pipe ; sometimes that would help , but having to do it could be a real pain . |
| 24 | They did , I mean the docker at that time of day he 'd take a gallon o beer into work with him . |
| 25 | Stubbly would never need thirty pieces of silver ; he 'd take a cheque . |
| 26 | my dad like in South Africa my dad was telling me , when they went out at night , yeah , like if they were going to a restaurant he 'd take a kni he 'd take his gun with him and keep , it 's fucking odd man like my dad walking around with a nine millimetre strapped to his |
| 27 | The fighting dimmed hopes of peace , but Lord Carrington , the former British foreign secretary who heads the EC peace talks , said he would take a tough line with the Serbian and Croatian military leaders . |
| 28 | He decided that on the way he would take a look at the nearby clump of trees from which the eerie sounds had drifted during the night . |
| 29 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 30 | He would take a leaf out of Mickey 's book . |