Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 2 | I opened the desk and slowly I took out the box and opened it . |
| 3 | Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub . |
| 4 | Instinctively I take off my shoes and feel the springy grass beneath my bare feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Later on I took a vacation to Los Angeles and called George up and he said , ‘ What hotel are you at right now ? |
| 6 | I was ashamed ; and thenceforward I took my turn with the rest — to my benefit . |
| 7 | Gently I took hold of the door handle and moved it . |
| 8 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 9 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 10 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 11 | ‘ , ‘ Perhaps I took it all a little too seriously … |
| 12 | Or perhaps I took up my Arabic textbook . |
| 13 | So I took the book down and there was my speech ; and the response to it was extraordinary . |
| 14 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 15 | So I took my letter , sealed in an envelope , back to the newsagent . |
| 16 | So I took it with me on the Hiroshima mission . |
| 17 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 18 | So I took it upon myself to tell her , old nosey-parker that I am . |
| 19 | Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ? |
| 20 | ‘ Then I went to the States to record and tour with another band and , when I returned , a bassist friend had left Cozy Powell 's ‘ Hammer ’ band when Cozy was charting regularly , and so I took over from him . |
| 21 | So I took her through that holiday in greater detail . |
| 22 | ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’ |
| 23 | So I took out an insurance policy against a possible breakdown in the production . |
| 24 | So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time . |
| 25 | ‘ But when I got behind the typewriter I thought , ‘ That ai n't gon na make a very good piece ’ and so I took the piss out of her something rotten . |
| 26 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 27 | So I took it . |
| 28 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 29 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 30 | So I took Maria home across the cold , windy moors to Haworth . |