Example sentences of "[noun sg] might take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general hospital psychiatric team should be able to provide assessment of older adolescents ; one member of the team might take a particular interest in this age group . |
| 2 | The next morning , alone in the small sitting-room , Molly took out the Piero della Francesca book , as a scholar might take a work from the shelves to check a reference . |
| 3 | If the slim person has eaten a really large meal , he or she will naturally be very full and will perhaps not eat again until hunger really returns ; in addition this type of person might take a little exercise to ‘ work off ’ the food . |
| 4 | In Prague the talk is of starting with a break-up of the monopolies , and letting the market rip later — but de-monopolising the economy might take a long time . |
| 5 | Neither the British nor French governments show any sign of bailing the company out although a future Labour government might take a different view . |
| 6 | It has occasionally been suggested — notably by Lord Alexander , when he became chairman of NatWest in 1990 — that the Bank might take a more relaxed view , to help industry . |
| 7 | While a wire or a gate scheme might take a few weeks if spun out to the maximum , tunnels were sometimes under construction for six months . |
| 8 | Parents often did not attend , and at most the couple might take a day off to celebrate . |
| 9 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 10 | During this time , the rest of the family might take a holiday — staying in the attic of Uncle Jim 's boarding house at Morecambe Bay , where my mother helped with the cooking and serving , or borrowing Auntie Mary 's caravan for a week at Saltburn . |