Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |
| 2 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 4 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 5 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 6 | The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ? |
| 7 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 8 | I needed to take a closer look . |
| 9 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 10 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 11 | But , you see , I had taken a violent dislike to the short man . |
| 12 | It was the first time I had taken a close look at him . |
| 13 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , Charles , I 've taken a good look at your latest victim . |
| 15 | ‘ After I 've taken a few pictures . |
| 16 | Yeah erm w what I 've done , I 've measured I 've taken an exact measurement , |
| 17 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 18 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 19 | I have to take a few digs — as well as the compliments . |
| 20 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ I have taken a great risk in coming to see you tonight . ’ |
| 22 | I have taken a little time to sketch the history of paragraph 16.5 of Code C in order to show that it is not directly linked to the ancient and deep-rooted privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 23 | I have taken a long look at local government finance . |
| 24 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 25 | In the course of this chapter I have taken an historical perspective upon the nature of religious belief , looking in particular at writers from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries . |
| 26 | Must be a bug ; Luke 's got it , too , not to mention behaving like a bear with a sore head when I told him I wanted to take an early lunch . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Ye got to take a positive attitude . |
| 28 | A matter which has taken a great deal of time was the proposal before ITAC in relation to future arrangements for the Electronic Distribution of the Crown Court List . |
| 29 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 30 | PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’ |