Example sentences of "[pron] take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ’ Each time I take a good picture , I ask myself who can I show it to … but there are fewer people left . ’ ) |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman referred to another issue in which I take a good deal of interest — women and work . |
| 3 | Sentencing , Sheriff Gordon Shiach told David Frame : ‘ I take a serious view of these offences . ’ |
| 4 | I take a political position according to my belief in the particular issue , and it never coincides in respect of more than one issue with that of any particular party . |
| 5 | Will you be all right with him while I take a better look at the other bloke ? ’ |
| 6 | That 's why I take a small telescopic rod , a tiny fixed spool reel and lures all over the world with me . |
| 7 | You must understand , however , that I take a great interest in poor Hyde . |
| 8 | 1650 hours — I take a final walk round . |
| 9 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 10 | I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues . |
| 11 | I take a deep breath , trying to wake myself up . |
| 12 | I take a deep breath , trying to control things . |
| 13 | I take a deep breath . |
| 14 | I take a deep breath . |
| 15 | I take a deep breath and try to calm myself , to still the noisy , rusty jagged parts . |
| 16 | I take a deep breath , ‘ I said I could probably write a story about my own death . ’ |
| 17 | As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I take a few steps then , remembering my hold-all , push my way back to it like a drowning man . |
| 20 | ‘ So I take a few risks , ’ I snap . |
| 21 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
| 22 | For the moment , suffice it to say that I take a skeptical view of the structural analyses offered . |
| 23 | I take a crude conception of compliance as a starting-point , since it is clear that , in factory or farm , money has been spent in response to the existence of water pollution regulation . |
| 24 | Zimbabwe 's support for re-opened trade is echoed by other southern African states , which take a similar view of the ivory ban [ see elephant article in this issue ] . |
| 25 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 26 | There are organisations which take a positive approach to creative thinking and build it into their staff development structure by organising creative days or even weeks . |
| 27 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 28 | You make a withdrawal , they take it away and let's say you can go overdrawn , so you 've got eighty pound in the building society , and you take a hundred out , how much have you got left now ? |
| 29 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 30 | You take a good look inside your heart and you 'll see the image of the boss . ’ |