Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | I forgot to take those rotten grapefruits back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
| 7 | Then I decided to take some of it back to the shore with me . |
| 8 | I decided to take this new paint to task on a painting trip to the island of Sark , in the Channel Islands . |
| 9 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 10 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to take most of the deliveries near my head ’ , said Farbrace . |
| 12 | See I wanted to take that . |
| 13 | That 's a point , I wanted to take some stronger painkillers back with me , what have you got ? |
| 14 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 15 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 16 | you forgot to take that poll tax form to your boss |
| 17 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 18 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 19 | She paused to take another sip of wine , conscious of Rune 's unremitting interest in her recital . |
| 20 | She had to take all the money in his wallet , she explained , because her ‘ business manager ’ would beat her up if she did n't turn in the profits . |
| 21 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 22 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 23 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 24 | She had to take another look . |
| 25 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 26 | But you had to take all that worry that |
| 27 | She wanted to take that thick neck of his and press her fingernails , long and freshly varnished for Urquhart 's benefit , deep into the flesh until the cocky smirk on his face was replaced by a grimace of pain . |
| 28 | This has been talked through but with both the Social Services and the the hospital and er we decided to take that chance . |
| 29 | This has been talked through but with both the Social Services and the the er hospital and er we decided to take that chance . |
| 30 | ‘ All boxers were weighed in , but because there was no chance of getting through a 28bout programme at a workmen 's club in one night , we decided to take half the bouts to another venue two nights later . |