Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 2 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 3 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 4 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 5 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 6 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 7 | In the meantime he 'll have to take a back seat whilst his team-mates bid for World Cup glory . |
| 8 | In addition , he might consider taking a shower or some exercise on waking , procedures which are aimed at stressing a regular start to the day . |
| 9 | He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour . |
| 10 | When the Moi trackers again descended from the lookout trees shaking their heads , Joseph on an impulse asked Jacques Devraux if he might climb to take a look with Chuck 's binoculars . |
| 11 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |
| 12 | He would like to take a look at Oxendown House . |
| 13 | DESERT Island Discs castaway Bob Geldof told presenter Sue Lawley he would like to take a packet of condoms with him , in case some beautiful woman suddenly came ashore , like Ursula Andress in the James Bond movie Dr No . |
| 14 | Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club . |
| 15 | After some initial success , however , the Young King 's campaign ground to a halt and Henry decided that he would have to take a hand himself . |
| 16 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 17 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |
| 18 | He has not said whether he will consider taking a peerage . |