Example sentences of "if i take [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ?
2 Yes , I own my own cab but the real mushers would have me if I took a fare . ’
3 If I took a knock I would n't feel it , and that would make things worse .
4 See if I took a pension mortgage out it would be linked to me lumped into me current pension contract .
5 And well I du n no if I took a continuity one round to the left .
6 ‘ Would it make you feel any better if I took the cardigan down to her , ’ said Yanto .
7 ‘ And if I took the classes then you would take me onto your books ? ’
8 If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times .
9 I thought it might help if I took the flowers off him , so I reached out and lifted them carefully , holding the stem ends away from me .
10 If I took the children there it would be a real breach .
11 But he said he 'd pay me a fiver if I took the fish out for a bit of fresh air in the hope that it might drop off to sleep .
12 Mind if I take a look ? ’
13 Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid .
14 ‘ Do you mind if I take a seat ? ’ began Blanche .
15 If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me .
16 ‘ Do you mind if I take a shower first ? ’
17 ‘ Mind if I take a look ? ’
18 Not if I take a quarter of a inch .
19 But as you 're obviously something else , let's try this instead : what would happen to me if I take no food and water and medicine ? ’
20 If I take the Metro you can almost see the petrol gauge dying in front of you . ’
21 If I take the wings of the morning and
22 I shall only be able to convince another person that such-and-such is the case if I take the trouble to present evidence which is available to both my challenger and myself .
23 " But I suppose one of us ought to stay awake ; and if I take the first turn it 'll give me a chance to have a look at your paw , Hlao-roo .
24 If I take the rest away and try and Who normally sticks one in the library , or
25 And if I take the book away , and so the pen is trying to push the book over .
26 If I take the time necessary for pupils to really understand a topic , then I will certainly have trouble exposing them to everything that is expected .
27 For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ .
28 ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house .
29 ‘ Sharon , sweetheart , I hope you wo n't mind terribly if I take the passenger seat ? ’
30 Erm if you er if I take the Greater York area for example , erm if you er if I take the Greater York area for example , the County Council erm have included in their figure of four thousand seven hundred and ten units , no new allocations , is my understanding .
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