Example sentences of "i [verb] take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 2 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 3 | I tend to take the beautiful surroundings of the mikva for granted ; in my local mikva , the private bathrooms which lead in total privacy into one of two mikvas are beautifully decorated and colour co-ordinated , centrally heated with modern power-showers and flouncy floral curtains all around . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 5 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 6 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 7 | The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ? |
| 8 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 9 | ‘ I aim to take the positive approach all the time now . |
| 10 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 11 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 12 | Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland . |
| 13 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 14 | But , you see , I had taken a violent dislike to the short man . |
| 15 | It was the first time I had taken a close look at him . |
| 16 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 17 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 18 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Charles , I 've taken a good look at your latest victim . |
| 20 | Yeah erm w what I 've done , I 've measured I 've taken an exact measurement , |
| 21 | ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’ |
| 23 | Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always . |
| 24 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 25 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ I have taken a great risk in coming to see you tonight . ’ |
| 27 | I have taken a long look at local government finance . |
| 28 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 29 | Therefore I have taken the different topics in the order that my sources thought appropriate and provided references to at least some of the specific instances of those problems that Howard gave in his text . |
| 30 | In the course of this chapter I have taken an historical perspective upon the nature of religious belief , looking in particular at writers from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries . |