Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 2 | ‘ I just took a fancy to it . |
| 3 | I just took a walk around the grounds . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I just took a flyer when I was at Stiff , ’ says the gently-spoken rock demon through a head cold . |
| 5 | I just take a couple of paracetamol . |
| 6 | At times , I just take a breather , actually stop and say , yeah hang on a minute , let's just walk through and work out what 's going on . |
| 7 | Should I just take a peek through the windows of those double doors — see if I can see him — Vern 's dad ? |
| 8 | I do n't care , did I just take a carton of that ? |
| 9 | I always take a bottle of water in the car for the children . ’ |
| 10 | I always take a bottle of claret and a meat pie to help me through the service and , when it 's finished , I gaze around to catch the eye of some pretty maid . |
| 11 | I always take a shower so have little experience of bath taps . |
| 12 | There is no right or wrong way and personally I always take a briefcase with me because there you have the tools of my trade in there . |
| 13 | I always take a turn in the restaurant to see there are no complaints . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I always take a nap of an afternoon and when you rap the knocker it startles me , which is bad for my nerves . ’ |
| 15 | I always take a lot of care plumbing the depth , and even though I know this peg well , I will plumb it again . |
| 16 | In despair , I unsuccessfully took an overdose . |
| 17 | I nearly took a picture of him ! |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 19 | Having sized up the competition and feeling confident that I had nothing to fear , I boldly took a step forward , grabbed a morsel of soap and proceeded to scrub away . |
| 20 | I simply took a glass of Ephractian feather-wine and nodded . |
| 21 | He asked why I never took a case in Benedict 's Private Wing . |
| 22 | See , I used to , I never took a mare away wi with me in foal , to foal down at fo away , you know , to be coming away without I had a to a foal 's head collar . |
| 23 | I never took a meal with him , but I should be surprised to find that he ate with a good appetite . |
| 24 | I recently took an Odyssey 400 to the Himalayas and used the bag as hand luggage — there 's room for the tent and other items inside . |
| 25 | Let me just take a coffee down to er . |
| 26 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 27 | Le fair-play ( which already takes a hyphen in French ) becomes le fairplay , and le blue-jean ( which has already lost its s ) becomes le bluejean . |
| 28 | Diana de Moutis says she still wants to know why Roos obtained an export licence , which normally takes a year , within two months and whether Didier Imbert had a buyer ready when he bought ‘ La Celestine ’ . |
| 29 | Mrs Woolf presented the issue primarily as one of access to justice , explaining that incorporation would short-circuit the lengthy process of taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg [ which usually takes a minimum of five years ] . |
| 30 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |