Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] take [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd take another blood glucose reading just in case . ’ |
| 3 | There are no in-house incinerators licensed to take PCBs , though many firms run incinerators which can take simpler chemical wastes . |
| 4 | The standard Nuclide Luminoscope® chamber in particular is large enough to take slices over 5 mm in thickness , and there is a special deep version which can take sawn core samples for rapid examination , possibly on site . |
| 5 | And what you tell me and , again when your survey you 'll take all age groups you see ? |
| 6 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 7 | Elinor , her arms draped around the necks of two paramedics , said , ‘ You can take that thing right away ! ’ |
| 8 | And you can take bloody Steve Lamacq and Jacob 's Mouse with you — IM |
| 9 | No longer will you need to work backward : you can take some crime situation , such as the possibility that your main character has committed a murder , and from there work forwards . |
| 10 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 11 | I think we 'll take those sausage rolls with us tonight |
| 12 | In the Budget , we announced that we would take most family businesses out of Inheritance Tax altogether . |
| 13 | John Weakley , of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said workers at a ‘ number of sites ’ had warned they will take industrial action ballots if the compulsory redundancies threat was not removed . |
| 14 | The polyps of leather corals are too small to be fed individually in the way that some hard corals are , though some of them will take newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 15 | Even now the magnetism that drew her to him was so strong that if he knocked at her door and said he 'd changed his mind , in spite of everything , it might take more amor proprio than she could muster to refuse him . |
| 16 | ‘ Now it 'll take all Wings Balsdon 's tact to get any parcels issued before next Monday . ’ |
| 17 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 18 | TAXATION is unlikely to be increased , though that has been suggested , as it would take much-needed spending power out of the economy and be unacceptable to the newly-powerful Tory Backbenchers . |
| 19 | The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally . |
| 20 | It will take real customer demand to convince it to do otherwise , it says . |
| 21 | Still , Fishko realises that his stable may not be an easy sell : ‘ It will take some time years probably ’ , he acknowledges . |