Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] take a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll take a salad please , ’ said Cornelius Murphy . |
| 3 | Yes , I 'll take a return just in case . |
| 4 | So I said er oh right , well I 'll take a chance then . |
| 5 | I 'll take a pause now |
| 6 | Then I could take a break too . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was ye , ’ the man said , ‘ I 'd take a walk away from here then I 'd get a taxi . ’ |
| 8 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
| 9 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 10 | Determined not to look at the brute of a man opposite , Fabia was in the act of deciding that she would ask him nothing in future — not even for a ride back to Mariánské Láznë , she 'd take a taxi sooner — when she was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt . |
| 11 | Alternatively , you could take a holiday specifically with the aim of windsurfing , as these carefully chosen centres are often in pleasant holiday surroundings . |
| 12 | just say , you can take a poem home and learn it and then recite at the next lesson and then used it just |
| 13 | Difference : you can take a walk outside . |
| 14 | You can take a picture now . |
| 15 | Just past South Cadbury is Cadbury Castle and you can take a diversion here before going on to Sutton Montis and Queel Camel . |
| 16 | I think we 'll take a break now ladies and gentlemen for fifteen minutes please . |
| 17 | We 'll take a break there , in a couple of minutes , the dream may be dented , but Pat Bonner 's still looking for a World Cup place in the States next summer . |
| 18 | We 'll take a break there , still to come tonight , Roy Keane on Manchester United 's chances of staying in the European Cup , and in a couple of minutes , we concentrate on the Edinburgh derby . |
| 19 | We 'll take a break there , still to come tonight , Roy Keane on Manchester United 's chances of staying in the European Cup , and in a couple of minutes , we concentrate on the Edinburgh derby . |
| 20 | We 'll take a break there . |
| 21 | We 'll take a breather now but still to come … |
| 22 | Perhaps , he suggested , we might take a pause here , as the sound of my tears hitting the green-felt table sounded exactly like the BBC Effects Department 's tape of galloping horses . |
| 23 | We might take a walk together . ’ |
| 24 | We 'll follow the quai , and cross that bridge — no , the second one — and perhaps we could take a cognac somewhere , and wait until the gas-lamps dim , and then walk back . |
| 25 | Moreover , by accepting the overwhelming evidence that there are innate human capacities , predilections , and constraints , we can take a step further in such an enterprise . |
| 26 | Even then , he believed there was hope and persuaded her that they should take a holiday together . |
| 27 | It may take a couple more hundred years , a thousand , but we will get there . |
| 28 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 29 | It might take a bit longer than . |
| 30 | The answer which is usually proffered is a variant of the ‘ snapshot ’ argument : the stock of capital is so large in comparison with variations in the relevant flows that it would take a timespan considerably longer than the Keynesian short run for variations in the rate of net investment to have a significant impact on the size of the stock of capital . |