Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] take a " in BNC.

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1 Ms Salvage should take a look at what real country living involves before assuming such an image would be dated !
2 He indicated that Maria should take a bow .
3 However , the shadow secretary 's remarks to the Scottish Trade Unions for Labour in Glasgow last Friday may take a little more explaining .
4 Bernard thought Ellen should take a proper job .
5 Mike Read of FFPS said that the RHS was continuing to behave irresponsibly : " The RHS could take a lead in this issue .
6 Marshall said , after he had gone , that he doubted Wainfleet could take a serious view of anything .
7 Alternatively , Harrison Drape 's corded Superstyle Twintrack will take a valance and curtain , from £25.99 for 120 cm length .
8 He put on a brave face to Sunday Express readers : ‘ I hope it will be believed that the Arsenal can take a licking as well as any other club .
9 Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather .
10 So , if South Korea were attacked today by the inferior ground forces of North Korea plus their Air Corps , I feel that South Korea would take a bloody nose .
11 I knew L. would take a holiday sometime .
12 Maybe in twenty or thirty years time England will take a Test series off them .
13 THE new governor of the Bank of England will take a five-year pay freeze as a ‘ personal statement ’ of his commitment to controlling inflation , it was announced yesterday .
14 Until this improves , it 's likely that Russia will take a back seat for Western investment .
15 ‘ An excursion would be fun and Mitch could take a lot of good photographs . ’
16 Observers all agree that if such radical measures are to be possible , the UN must take a tougher line than America has dared to follow .
17 If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles .
18 Hamish would take a shine to the duffle-coat .
19 In return , Aegon will take a 40 per cent stake in the infrastructure profits ( that is management charges less expenses ) generated on unit-linked and non with-profits business .
20 I 'm sure Kenny will take a backseat approach with the Blackburn players today .
21 The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) .
22 The BBC should take a look at how golf is covered in America .
23 In a statement on July 15 Shamir 's office said that Israel would take a " positive view " of Assad 's reply if it enabled Israel to conduct " direct and unmediated negotiations with Syria " .
24 Naturally Great-Grandad would take a share , a sort of commission for his trouble , if you like .
25 Since he also believed , after the meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 , that Austria would take a lead from Russia on Ottoman affairs , he began to feel that he had a mandate for resolute action when the " eastern question " next arose .
26 John Whitaker will take a day 's leave from this week 's Olympia show to ride Gammon in the final event of the Renault series in Grenoble .
27 Students new to I.H. should take a test , both oral and written , before the course to determine their levels , except beginners .
28 Mr Robertson said it was ‘ a reasonable prospect ’ to suppose the House of Lords might take a different view of the case , and that should be taken into account .
29 Edwards used to take a nail onto the field with which to assail the seam , but that was not the only close sailing in which they indulged .
30 The scars of Bosnia will take a long time to heal .
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