Example sentences of "she [modal v] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also rumours that she may take a role in a film directed by David Lynch 's daughter Jennifer , which promises to make Blue Velvet look positively staid . |
| 2 | She could take a hint . |
| 3 | She could take a week to grumble into the hooks and eyes of her dress . |
| 4 | Luke was on his feet and in front of her before she could take a step towards the doors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't think she 'd take a risk like that meself … ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes she thought she had a fever and , in the morning when she 'd cooked and the family had eaten , too ill to work in the fields , she 'd take a rug out onto the roof and sleep in the warmth of the winter sun . |
| 8 | By the middle of the following week , however , she was really missing her trips to the pool and she decided that on Wednesday afternoon , which was one of the afternoons when David was n't at the factory , she would take a chance and go for a swim . |
| 9 | She 'd have to be very hard-up before she would take a man like him . |
| 10 | The other decision she made was that , on the one-per-cent chance that it was n't a fool 's errand she was on , since it was uphill for most of the way and she did n't want to arrive hot and sticky , she would take a taxi up , and walk down . |
| 11 | Pictures of Lorna Lewis picnicking in pedal pushers , marrying in white and christening her baby daughters counterpointed these triumphs , and the couple , who lived their lives from the outside in , saw themselves looking happy in magazines and believed they were happy , although the combination of Hitchcock and post-natal depression persuaded Lorna to announce that she would take a year off to devote herself to her family . |
| 12 | She would take a bath and go in to work early — there was plenty to do . |
| 13 | They would visit the cemetery together : ‘ she would take a tram car , see she 'd one or two buried there , it was her own family , and we 'd go to the cemetery nearly every Sunday if the weather was good . |
| 14 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 15 | She will take a fiver , a tenner , a 25 rouble note if pushed . |
| 16 | Breathes there a woman with soul so dead that she can take a trip round Bath 's exhilarating architecture without wanting to take home ‘ a touch of the Georgians ’ — even if it 's only a silver spoon ? |
| 17 | But erm , that 's Linda , and er , as I say I 've known her for seven years , you can have a bit of fun , she can take a joke , she 's got a good sense of humour , and nice to work with , and she 's nice to work with . |