Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , that was the other thing , it was raining so hard , rattling at the windowpane in the dark … even so , I was convinced I 'd heard something , and at that hour there 's nobody else up except the baker , and he 's over here on this side of the Piazza , so I got up to take a look and saw this girl lying there in the rain . |
| 2 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 3 | I 'd best take a look , just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 4 | I had hoped to take my time over sorting out the house contents , but I 'd better take a look straight away — at any rate for the movable stuff . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better take a look at my patient , ’ she says . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better take a look at her , ’ said Lindsey . |
| 7 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 8 | However , I think I 'd better take a peep at the excavations . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better take a leak . ’ |
| 10 | WHEN the Royal yacht Britannia berthed at Leith I went down to take a photograph but the police said no one was allowed in . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't take a girl to a cricket match , ’ Matt said , deliberately obtuse . |
| 12 | I did n't , I did n't take a lot of notice really . |
| 13 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 14 | But I did n't take a lot of it . |
| 15 | I had never taken a record and listened to them , even though they were labelled ‘ progressive ’ rock . |