Example sentences of "i take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think of him as an artist who writes history , and I take it that the history he writes includes the history he has principally suffered — that of Poland . |
| 2 | If it be nasty weather , I take a turn in the chocolate-hause : where , as you walk , madam , you have the prettiest prospect in the world ; you have lookingglasses all round you . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs Iverson had n't been beastly to Miss Amy hall , I take it ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's not a word that I know sir but I think I take your meaning . ’ |
| 5 | Still , I take your point about London . ’ |
| 6 | I take good care to emphasise that the sensation as we stall and recover is not a symptom and that it can occur in normal flight and in some cases when the aircraft flies through turbulence . |
| 7 | ‘ I take it it 's too late to be sober or sleep ? — Good . |
| 8 | I take that back . |
| 9 | She 's got the seal of approval , I take it ? ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile , I take what I can get : safe sex with a bit of clean trade . |
| 11 | But then I realised you had joined the queue of dolour — I take it from your sparkling eyes that Lucy 's dropped her drawers and flung herself into sapphic bliss ? ’ |
| 12 | I take a sip of beer , of lager . |
| 13 | I take another slug , and ignore the amused smile of those around me . |
| 14 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , I take no particular interest in anything , ’ he tells Raskolnikov musingly on their first encounter ; ‘ especially now , I have nothing to occupy me . ’ |
| 16 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 17 | I take it to be a product of the myth I described above : ‘ I am fighting against the entrenched forces of insular stupidity , and I call upon the French to aid me ! ’ |
| 18 | What Gardner calls ‘ meaning ’ is , I take it , the work 's unique expression of value , which we grasp intuitively . |
| 19 | Criticism , I take it , is an activity that occurs between equals , whatever its object . |
| 20 | Music , I take it , could be defended in essentialist and aesthetic terms , but not literature ; this point , also , was made by Lewis in The Personal Heresy . |
| 21 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 22 | And writing like this , if not indeed the writing of Thrones in general , I take to be inexcusable . |
| 23 | The impression persists , that the only life he had lived is , in fact , the literary , and , admitting its necessity to our fathers , especially to him who had such a job of clearing to do , I take it a fault . |
| 24 | There is litter on the seats of the train I take to Westminster . |
| 25 | At Richmond a lot of people get off the train and I take refuge in a Smoking compartment where the heat is not on . |
| 26 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 27 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 28 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 29 | By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application . |
| 30 | I take as typical of my difficulty a sentence from item six in your summary of your campaign : ‘ The need for the silent majority to assert itself in order that politicians and judges fully understand the true feelings of the public . ’ |