Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I think if you 'll excuse me I 'll just take a little nap . |
| 4 | I 'll just take a drink , then I 'll be off . " |
| 5 | I 'll just take a peep . ’ |
| 6 | Why do n't you hop up on to the examination couch and I 'll just take a quick listen to baby 's heart and take your blood pressure , then afterwards I 'm sure Sister will be only too happy to show you around our labour ward and let you take a look at the facilities we have available . |
| 7 | Fine I 'll just take a note of that , thank you . |
| 8 | But I 'll always take a chance with players if I think they are right , and this lad really impressed me . ’ |
| 9 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 10 | I could perhaps take a little bit of paper like that and I 'd find |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd rather take a taxi , ’ she said in a stilted voice . |
| 12 | In the circumstances you outline , I agree I 'd rather take a chance on you than on most people . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I would just take a It seems to me that quite clearly that a new settlement in the A sixty four corridor south , would stimulate migration at levels which would not otherwise have taken place and that is the key objection to it . |
| 15 | I I would even take I have to say I would even take a erm |
| 16 | ‘ It will certainly be the aim to go to Cheltenham again , and I would hopefully take a similar path . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 18 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 19 | The end result is a lovely camouflaged effect , but more importantly the dye has roughened up the normally smooth surface of the reed , which will now take a good varnish that will not chip off . |
| 20 | which will really take a lot of time . |
| 21 | There seems to be a feeling that having done well one year you should then take a back place in the queue . |
| 22 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 23 | ‘ Jake 'd have wanted me to see her right ; but she 'll never take a penny piece off me … ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If the client has a salary in excess of forty-five thousand , you still take the seventy-five per cent off the forty-five , but you could then take a third of whatever is over that forty-five . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose you could always take a very long way round . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You could always take a dog . ’ |
| 28 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They are like people at a meal who can only take a bite from each course . |