Example sentences of "take my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't spect she 's took my toothbrush — she probably put it somewhere . |
| 2 | I went upstairs , had a wash then took my place at the dining table . |
| 3 | I 've got a space , now , that takes my life , my things , and me . |
| 4 | So , having drawn out my basic shapes , I can fill them with whatever takes my fancy , or possibly the fancy of a customer . |
| 5 | Once in Kentish Town , we stop at the shop and Crilly buys me a carton of food : soup and cheese and biscuits and cereal , chocolate and bread and ham and whatever else takes my fancy . |
| 6 | Wearing an immaculate white uniform , he takes my briefcase . |
| 7 | They Les takes my word for it . |
| 8 | ‘ I would mine uncle would let me have my life , though he takes my crown , ’ he had been heard to say on one occasion . |
| 9 | I shall be happy for the fellow who takes my place . ’ |
| 10 | He takes my hand and squeezes it hard . |
| 11 | I know I 'm in trouble when the beautiful Philippino nurse I met in Dr McKenzie 's consulting room takes my hand and says , ‘ Hold tight and scream if you want . ’ |
| 12 | Nein says Herta as she takes my hand and places it , for an angry moment , between her thighs . |
| 13 | She takes my hand . |
| 14 | He lifts me out without speaking , takes my hand and leads me , snivelling and sobbing , back towards the caravan . |
| 15 | He takes my hand . |
| 16 | He takes my hand . |
| 17 | Crilly takes my hand and leads me in . |
| 18 | As the nondrinker I get first go ( why ? ) and it takes my breath away . |
| 19 | It takes my breath away , so although she is half asleep she gets in first : ‘ Did you get through ? ’ |
| 20 | " Yes " He takes my hat from the ground and puts it on my head . |
| 21 | But I not seen one yet as you might call a proper bleeding accident , if you takes my meaning ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 23 | I do n't like to read because it takes my mind off myself . |
| 24 | Apart from anything else , that takes my mind off the wombat of Stoke Newington and his tufty little dormitory . |
| 25 | A second nurse takes my blood pressure and checks my pulse . |
| 26 | After another moment or two , Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the pub . |
| 27 | Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the clinic , onto the green and into the car where Anita sits at the wheel . |
| 28 | And when the winds change , the sea moves and it takes my boat away . ’ |
| 29 | He has denied he is on the verge of quitting — ‘ Im suprised if people thought I am the sort who takes my bat and ball home if I do nt get my way ’ . |
| 30 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |