Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [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 | If I could just take your address . ’ |
| 5 | So I can just take my folder , sir . |
| 6 | I can only take your word for it . |
| 7 | I can only take your word for that . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You must always take my advice . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll never take my appendix out , I can tell you that . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's all there — ladies shoes at PELLINI , elegant furniture at MACDONALDS , oriental rugs at HUNTER AND SMALLPAGE , kitchens and bathrooms from SMITH BROTHERS , fashion for gentlemen at ANDERSON & SONS , fashion for the larger ladies at SUNDIAL , you can even take your pet something home from HARGREAVES PET SHOP . |
| 15 | A good loading tune makes up for this , although in-game sound is limited to sparse hitting FX — oh well , you can always take your radio down to the beach ! |
| 16 | In ridding the game of these hangers-on we should perhaps take our lead from cricket , a game nobody watches . |
| 17 | We will never take our anatomy books for granted again ! |
| 18 | and then if we can afford to send him privately we can just take his name off . |
| 19 | Most of the top sailors start here , so be careful who you position yourself next to since if they are fast they will soon take your wind . |
| 20 | There is a mystic , psychic quality about them that is pleasantly disturbing , and often one of them will gently take my hand and gaze steadily into my eyes as if willing me better and I feel sort of honoured to be welcomed into their society . |
| 21 | But instead — and with careful guidance — it should eventually take its place alongside other measures of credit cost as a useful tool for comparison , and as a warning signal where credit cost is really high . |
| 22 | It works best on long , straight hair but if it 's very thick it 'll probably take your hairdresser an afternoon to do the winding . |
| 23 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 24 | If they were walking he would sometimes take her elbow — less to support her , she thought , than to steer her . |
| 25 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 26 | He can then take his foot off the pedal as the revs will now stay at their preset level , rather like a cruise control in a car . |