Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I went to take the call in some confusion — confusion made worse by haste when Alexander told me it was the Prime Minister .
2 So I had to take an eye test , I remember .
3 the pink bits the bit that fits onto ridge , they 've got three screws in each piece but they only need two to hold them , so I 've taken the centre one out of each one and used it to do the
4 Yes , yeah , cos now , that , see she 's not here really for , for me to come and pay her so I have to take the money down to her house now .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support .
9 But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’
10 It 's er , they ought to have , they 'll ha , have to it wants now I 've taken the screw out of the sinks that has got ta be put back .
11 She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ .
12 Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby .
13 And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father
14 She wanted other children , and by then I 'd taken the decision never to have any more and had a vasectomy .
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