Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |