Example sentences of "take the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | They take the money they go and buy videos , they buy records , they go and bu ba for fo football and all si |
2 | Take the money it 's just to get our two and a half million . |
3 | ‘ Take the road you came on , ’ she replied without interest , opening a book . |
4 | Then you take the rope you brought from the cellar and measure out four lengths , cutting them with your penknife . |
5 | Take the bit he has asked you and talk for say 30 seconds then round off and be quiet . |
6 | I take the point you 're trying to make . |
7 | I 'm , I 'm going to have to cut you off , cos we 're running out of time , but I very much take the point you 're making , that it could 've had this trade effect on us , just in the last ten seconds Professor Hoskin , is it possible to predict what 's going to happen in the Soviet Union over the next six months , is it gon na be for good , or , or , . |
8 | are greatest and where the greatest problem there are or , or , er exist under normal circumstances to which the trunk roads , the A roads , the primary roads , the principle roads , these roads are where the traffic is greatest and this therefore constitutes in my mind at least the most important roads , I think your correct term , we will er consider the phraseology used in perhaps more accurately to described the , the , the title road which we are talking about here , but I certainly take the point you make . |
9 | To re-seal a half-used cartridge , take the piece you cut off the end of the nozzle and push it into the nozzle the other way round |
10 | ‘ You just take the margin you 're paying somebody else ; make sure your overheads did n't come out to more than that , and you ca n't lose . ’ |
11 | So that you could , if you 're sitting over there , and I take the shot it 's not fair on you cos you do n't know . |
12 | You take the bag I 'll take the money . |
13 | Take the time I was interviewing the world 's greatest talking bird on The David Frost Show in New York . |
14 | Each book should have a card within it , and when you take the book you sign and date the card and put it in a box at the location of the books . |
15 | At this stage I take the view it is very unlikely that there 's anything in this expert evidence that will be of the slightest assistance to me and I 'm not going rule it out . |
16 | ‘ We take the view it is better to get a partly complete story with a whisper of opportunity and get it to one or two key companies quickly so they can get out there , rather than sitting back and waiting for a nicely tailored account of what is going on which , by the time we get it to them , will be history rather than opportunity , ’ he explains . |
17 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
18 | Now we have seen the main systems of breeding we can ask again why they take the form they do , and why some species are monogamous , others polygynous , others polyandrous . |