Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 2 | where you take a picture of a building and you |
| 3 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 4 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 5 | They are then moved to a large pit , usually close to the spawning site , where they take a further 6–7 days to become free-swimming . |
| 6 | Apparent exceptions to this trend include sites like Chelmsford , with no known stone defences , and Thorpe-by-Newark , where they take a different alignment . |
| 7 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |
| 8 | ‘ So I take a few risks , ’ I snap . |
| 9 | Once I take a couple of painkillers , I 'll be fine . ’ |
| 10 | Such is the frailty of most of our natures that once we take a toe off the straight and narrow we tend to slide off it altogether . |
| 11 | Mind if I take a look ? ’ |
| 12 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you mind if I take a seat ? ’ began Blanche . |
| 14 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you mind if I take a shower first ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Mind if I take a look ? ’ |
| 17 | Not if I take a quarter of a inch . |
| 18 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 19 | If you take a train ride into any of our major cities you will see thousands of long narrow gardens in serried ranks on either side of the track . |
| 20 | It 's terrible if you take a lot of it because it 's just bad for your personality — not for your health , except for the fact that you get thin . |
| 21 | As you wander along the ridge , it 's a long time before you lose sight of its neat white contours , and if you take a strong pair of binoculars on your walk , you can keep an eye on how the housemaid is turning your bed down . |
| 22 | The turn can be speeded up if you take a step back on the board and depress the windward rail . |
| 23 | Although , if you take a sergeant-major or some corporals even — it 's the nature of the man . |
| 24 | If you take a balanced view , variegated plants — apart from the odd horrendous freak — contribute enormously to a well-planted garden in lots of different ways . |
| 25 | You see , with costs like this , even if you take a few days off you 're a million quid in the hole ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 27 | Swimming is regarded as one of the best all-round forms of exercise , but a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers shows you could be at risk from stomach upsets and skin rashes if you take a dip in dirty public swimming pools . |
| 28 | If you take a shape from the STANDARD section in to the ORIGINAL section , the points for that shape will of course already exist . |
| 29 | This means you have to be careful if you take a break and turn the machine off during knitting . |
| 30 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |