Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] take [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll take up golf in my old age . ’ |
| 2 | Well , at that point we 've got to three o'clock and the end of the term , erm I 'll take up Totem and Taboo , and its more forward lis looking aspects in the first lecture of er , next term , and I wish you all a happy Christmas , and new year , and hope you have a good , a good vacation and look forward to seeing you here again , the first Thursday of next term . |
| 3 | The nature of my duties both in the Province and in this House means that I have not yet had the pleasure and privilege of reading Dr. FitzGerald 's book , but I shall take on hearsay what the hon. Gentleman says about this entry . |
| 4 | Yeah , I I will take only part of this debate as my daughter works in . |
| 5 | A FRESH move towards the privatisation of ScotRail was made yesterday with the creation of a Glasgow-based management post to prepare for the establishment of Railtrack , the state company which will take over railway infrastructure next year . |
| 6 | Paul Prescott , ScotRail 's planning and marketing manager , has been appointed zonal director for Scotland of Railtrack , the state company which will take over railway infrastructure next year . |
| 7 | Her friendship with President George Bush is reflected in her interest in what takes place on Capitol Hill , and her wonderful skill at public speaking suggests that she might take up politics . |
| 8 | You 'll take up decorating will you ? |
| 9 | And we take out contingency plans fo for various things , you 'll take out insurance , er against your house being broken into , against there being a fire or something else , you 'll take out insurance policies , or or assurance policies against your life , so that your dependants will be provided for , you 'll take out pe , er pension plans so that in your old age when you 're not working you 'll have sufficient money to live on . |
| 10 | And we take out contingency plans fo for various things , you 'll take out insurance , er against your house being broken into , against there being a fire or something else , you 'll take out insurance policies , or or assurance policies against your life , so that your dependants will be provided for , you 'll take out pe , er pension plans so that in your old age when you 're not working you 'll have sufficient money to live on . |
| 11 | ‘ You could take up ballet . ’ |
| 12 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 13 | Predicting the weather is a risky business , but you can take out insurance by choosing seeds and plants to cope with both drought and downpour . |
| 14 | If you can take out enemy war machines early on with Doom Divers then you will protect your core units and you can lob a few shots at the enemy 's best troops before the Boyz get stuck in . |
| 15 | If you own your house or flat you can take down partition walls , improvise new ones , block up old doors and make new openings in more convenient places to improve on the space . |
| 16 | But you can take home assessment a step further with a thorough post-mortem of your old shoes . |
| 17 | A further point is that I have been strongly advised that we should take out cover against the need to indemnify owners against not being able to occupy their units due to events such as fire , flood or damage by previous occupants . |
| 18 | Er this outlines the issues er which we consider should be agreed by the County Council er perhaps any , any but there 's no comment on the we should say the quality terms but also on the Airport Policy Plan be possible starts we might take on duty now or in particular if it was discussed and agreed and thus agreed er pace is set out in appendix two . |
| 19 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 20 | Now if we can take away tat excess oxygen that 's being produced , it 'll start going again . |
| 21 | While such a set-up would probably be established under the auspices of the Bank of England , the main users in the shape of the institutions envisage that in due course they would take over ownership . |
| 22 | They will take on responsibility for countryside management and access in the whole of the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) between Harting in the west and Eastbourne in the east , and will be consulted on significant planning applications in the area . |
| 23 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |
| 24 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 25 | Yeah well it well it 'd take up disk space unnecessarily |
| 26 | It was doubtful whether he could take on mountain tribes . |
| 27 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 28 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 29 | In rare moments of leisure he liked to potter around the garden , and always said he would take up farming when he retired . |
| 30 | It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less . |