Example sentences of "might take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 2 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 3 | She was not going to dig up ancient grievances or remind Gloria of days gone by , when she used to come into the Watermen with half a dozen different gentlemen-friends in tow or , which was even worse , unaccompanied and on the look-out for a lonely man who might take a fancy to her . |
| 4 | Well , I have a fancy to see it , and I think we might take a look on our way home . ’ |
| 5 | Casual passers-by might take a look . |
| 6 | The next morning , alone in the small sitting-room , Molly took out the Piero della Francesca book , as a scholar might take a work from the shelves to check a reference . |
| 7 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
| 8 | Parents often did not attend , and at most the couple might take a day off to celebrate . |
| 9 | I thought perhaps one of the customers might take a message , but … ’ |
| 10 | Or it might take a weekend depending . |
| 11 | Perhaps , he suggested , we might take a pause here , as the sound of my tears hitting the green-felt table sounded exactly like the BBC Effects Department 's tape of galloping horses . |
| 12 | I thought we might take a tour round the surrounding hills and make sure there were no hidden surprises . |
| 13 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 14 | It might take a while for the contacts to happen , but they 'd happen . |
| 15 | ‘ We might take a bit of rousing , but when we believe in something we do n't mind saying so . |
| 16 | Then they might take a bit more care instead of allowing young girls to roam the streets like common prostitutes ! |
| 17 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 18 | you know in other words it might take a bit of time to work it out , there is some reason why he must of said that must n't did n't he ? |
| 19 | It might take a bit longer than . |
| 20 | Mr John McDonnell , QC , for the company , had urged Mr Justice Hoffman to exercise the court 's power to the full , saying that it might take a year for the case to be heard by the House of Lords . |
| 21 | This might take a year or so for planks an inch or two thick and seven years for large oak ship 's timbers . |
| 22 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I thought we might take a holiday in Canada , ’ Mark said . |
| 24 | During this time , the rest of the family might take a holiday — staying in the attic of Uncle Jim 's boarding house at Morecambe Bay , where my mother helped with the cooking and serving , or borrowing Auntie Mary 's caravan for a week at Saltburn . |
| 25 | You might take a colour portable with you , either an ordinary set or one of the new mini-screen LCD colour televisions . |
| 26 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 27 | We might take a walk together . ’ |
| 28 | He wondered if he might take a walk before the others were up . |
| 29 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 30 | I had always hoped that the Buddhist Sangha , meaning the Community of Buddhist monks , might take a hand in the raising of morale , the deepening of the Buddhist emphasis on the Noble Eightfold Path , and in getting all sections of the nation to work together for peace and reconstruction . |