Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] take [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've taken over a local building firm which has unfortunately gone belly-up , ’ Vitor told her , ‘ and included among their assets is a plot of a sizeable number of acres which encompasses your property . ’ |
| 3 | You seem to take up an awful lot of energy and time . |
| 4 | If you decide to take out a personal pension , what are the costs involved in commissions to advisers as well as the costs and expenses of the pension provider ? |
| 5 | However , if you do take out a foreign currency loan , make certain that it is possible to switch back into sterling at least once , and at short notice without incurring heavy charges , otherwise you are very exposed . |
| 6 | ‘ You have taken on a great responsibility , ’ the turtle told her . |
| 7 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 8 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 9 | It means we have taken out a major supplier of cannabis in the south of England . ’ |
| 10 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 11 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 12 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |