Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 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 agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 4 | again , I mean I maybe should n't do this but I tend to take a very relaxed attitude to these things and if somebody wants to bring a pal or if somebody that would be interested I see it as P R for the B A I E you know |
| 5 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 6 | I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 8 | You 're er for the moment you 're not committed to a party , you 've just got to take an individual decision and I know Maastricht is very complicated but there 's a lot of gut feeling as well as precise knowledge about these things , so I want to take a vote . |
| 9 | Tell you what , I want to take a bag of crisps , and then if I sit with him |
| 10 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 11 | The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ? |
| 12 | Would I like to take a turn round the garden ? |
| 13 | I remember one particular occasion when , on finding ‘ Cheer up Mona ’ written on the blackboard when I arrived to take a class , I went absolutely potty , threatening dire punishment on the whole class — the entire school almost — unless the culprit came forward . |
| 14 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 15 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 16 | So if we 're we 're if we get if we get past that erm er that that point of am I going to take a flier . |
| 17 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 18 | Well I remember I like to take a while I ca n't stand the most of them . |
| 19 | Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one . |
| 20 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |
| 21 | While my mother was away I decided to take a trip myself , and took refuge in my old home town , South Shields , now changed almost unrecognizably . |
| 22 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 23 | On my last full day in Sligo Town , I decided to take a taxi southeasterly into County Leitrim , and if possible see Woodbrook , the house brought to life by the able pen of David Thomson . |
| 24 | It was a relief to be in the open air again but , lacking a street-rap , I decided to take a taxi to the riverside and find my way about from there . |
| 25 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 26 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 27 | And in the interests of doing a good job I decided to take a look at the place myself . ’ |
| 28 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 29 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 30 | I needed to take a closer look . |