Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
2 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
3 | Dana took her time in following her sister , and Claudia imagined she would take full advantage of her sister 's absence . |
4 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
5 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
6 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
7 | Being a foreigner , I felt I should take that advice . ’ |
8 | ‘ I thought I 'd take another blood glucose reading just in case . ’ |
9 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |
10 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
11 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
12 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
13 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
14 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
15 | But , did you used to take illegal drugs ? |
16 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
17 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
18 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
19 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
20 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
21 | BANISHED weightlifter Andrew Davies protested his innocence last night and said he would take legal action to clear his name . |
22 | Yeah , oh , well April is Easter , April nineteen , twenty , twenty one , twenty two , and it looks like your father he said he might take some time in n it ? |
23 | If I wanted I could take some revenge on him , which would also — some puny power — be a bitter reproach to my own pointless life . |
24 | One afternoon at the beginning of July , when the pub was closed for a few hours , she suggested they might take little Lil out for an airing . |