Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] take [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 2 | Obviously er if er you came in in the morning and you were n't feeling to good , for whatever reason , then you could n't slack back and say och well I 'll just take my time with this . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll just take your plate and — ’ Ashley stopped ; the table was empty . |
| 4 | And you might say well I 'll not take their advice I 'll invest it directly with Global and you 'll find that cos Global 'll keep it for themselves . |
| 5 | If I could just take your address . ’ |
| 6 | I saw sense and decided I would n't take my bat home after all . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't take my drink either . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't take my homework with me . |
| 9 | This was followed by Workers ' Playtime — Arthur English and Ken Platt with his catch phrase , ‘ I wo n't take my coat off , I 'm not stopping . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I wo n't take your refusal , ’ he said in a soft voice that made her quake . |
| 11 | So I can just take my folder , sir . |
| 12 | I can only take your word for it . |
| 13 | I can only take your word for that . |
| 14 | Should you know your cholesterol level , after you may well take your pulse or heart rate regularly when you have been out running , so why not ‘ know your cholesterol number ’ as the Americans would say ? |
| 15 | A vertical restraint may take one of two forms : one is unilateral imposition of substantive conditions for supply , for example a manufacturer saying ‘ you may not take my product X unless you also take my product Y ’ . |
| 16 | You must also take your hat off to Curtis Strange who had not played well during the week but who birdied the final four holes — no mean feat — to ensure that his country was n't beaten . |
| 17 | You must always take my advice . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll never take my appendix out , I can tell you that . ’ |
| 19 | She could n't take their mother 's place , of course , but for Liz 's sake she must try to do everything she possibly could for the little girls . |
| 20 | I said well this is , but yo you ca n't take my word for it because |
| 21 | You ca n't take your money with you . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't take your friend 's dog out but you can get up at the crack of dawn to set your hair . ’ |
| 23 | No you ca n't take your top off ! |
| 24 | You ca n't take your plaster off ! |
| 25 | She would n't help him ; he was weak and unsteady , but she would n't take his arm or guide him to the bed . |
| 26 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |
| 27 | But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world . |
| 28 | You 've taken her life ; you will not take her reputation , too , do you understand me ? " |
| 29 | 'f suppose you could try the Hatchett Inn if you wo n't take my advice . |
| 30 | He turned on Rothermere in particular , citing his tergiversations and saying contemptuously , ‘ You can not take your politics from a man like that . ’ |