Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legacies of these origins have persisted and there has never been agreement on the nature of international affairs , on the proper methods for studying them , or on the range of elements which theories of them must take into account . |
| 2 | Let Ephraim Cook keep the business in order for Amabel and Gemma , and whoever came after them must take care of themselves . |
| 3 | EVERYONE should take care in the sun , but you should be especially careful if you have : |
| 4 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 5 | I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared . |
| 6 | But one day I may take you at your word , ’ she said darkly . |
| 7 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
| 8 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 9 | I may take you back to the Bab el Khalk and ask you . ’ |
| 10 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I ought to take you to the farmhouse to be seen to — that iss , if I can carry you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I wonder if I ought to take up weight-lifting . ’ |
| 13 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to take her under my wing , ’ he suggested . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I ought to take you home . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm twice your age , I ought to take things like this in my stride — Christ only knows it 's not the first time . |
| 17 | I expect I ought to take notes , because the other Druids will like to know all this . |
| 18 | Do you think I ought to take anything or ? |
| 19 | Maybe I ought to take a look at her family . ’ |
| 20 | I ought to take you back to your own room . ’ |
| 21 | There was Mrs Richards telling me I ought to take vitamins . |
| 22 | It broke my heart to leave , but my daughter said I ought to take my chance . |
| 23 | Oh really I ought to take my little boy for a walk |
| 24 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 25 | Now for example if I 'm looking at O level history , what sort of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ . |
| 26 | Someone ought to take him home . |
| 27 | In his book , The Stress Myth , he contradicts the usual assumption that unwanted stress is an inevitable part of life and teaches that instead of looking for ways of dealing with it after it has occurred , we ourselves should take action to prevent it happening at all . |
| 28 | Although agreeing in principle with the views expressed by Jim Perrin in his article ‘ Range War ’ ( May issue ) , I feel I must take issue with one or two of his conclusions , which I think require further examination . |
| 29 | Sir : I must take issue with Janet Daley 's article on a supposed connection between poverty and language ( 4 October ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Good God , I must take holy orders immediately . ’ |