Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I am going to go this way round , right , and I 'm going to take some doughnuts . |
| 2 | Because I 'm going to take some measures to … speed things up . |
| 3 | ‘ I was asked to take two horses from Ireland and this was one of them . |
| 4 | The relocation will be in three phases , each of which is planned to take eighteen months . |
| 5 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 6 | Following the Supreme 's Court 's endorsement of Noonan 's ruling , the case was due to return to the Appeals Court to be reviewed by a panel of judges , a process which was expected to take several months . |
| 7 | But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents ! |
| 8 | You are expected to take adequate steps to protect yourself . |
| 9 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 10 | He has never admitted an awareness of Earth Mysteries as an inspiration for his work , but the walking of straight lines echoes not only leys but also the task of the Gaia Programme monitors who were required to take regular readings on straight lines out from ancient sites . |
| 11 | Maybe you were tempted to take handheld shots on telephoto — perhaps with a very good reason , lions in a zoo are not very approachable and often the only way to shoot them in close-up is with a long-focus lens . |
| 12 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ Benjamin Barnett and Dave Matthews compliment each other well up front , and we are looking to take 12 points from the last eight games and finish mid-table , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 14 | I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 15 | He does n't really mean that elephants do n't need an explanation ; rather that he is satisfied that biologists can explain elephants , provided they are allowed to take certain facts of physics for granted . |
| 16 | I mean I may maybe decriminalization is part of that but I , as someone said why sho , why should n't people take er , drugs if they want to , they 're allowed to take other drugs ? |
| 17 | They said they 're going to take ten days to make up their mind Lynda so we 'll give them the benefit of the doubt . |
| 18 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 19 | But they were encouraged to take other risks because their basic business ( lending for house purchase ) was getting unprofitable , because supervision by federal examiners was weak and because federal deposit insurance in effect underwrote any risks they cared to take . |
| 20 | It 's expected to take two months just to identify and catalogue the antiques so they can be matched with items reported stolen.Two men are helping police with their inquiries . |
| 21 | It 's expected to take 9 months to complete . |
| 22 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
| 23 | a ‘ notice to warn ’ can require the trader upon whom it is served to take specified steps to warn consumers about unsafe goods which that trader supplies or has already supplied . |
| 24 | The kestrel is an adaptable predator , and even in Europe it is known to take large quantities of insects and earthworms ( Brown , 1976 ; Yalden & Warburton , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | He is going to take some photographs . |