Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 2 | But Bernard fainted so she took him into casualty . |
| 3 | He had a number of handbills which he was distributing to everyone who passed so I took one nonchalantly and his kind , brown eyes smiled . |
| 4 | and then mum decided she was going to come so we took the car . |
| 5 | As we drew near he took a step forward shining his lantern with its green light above his head as if to give the driver the ‘ All Clear ’ . |
| 6 | Has n't somebody taken mine ? |
| 7 | Has n't he taken ? |
| 8 | Ah , God , I do n't know how you take your job . |
| 9 | Once they had cooled completely we took them out carefully so we did n't disturb the curls too much . |
| 10 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 11 | Do you know when you take this to school your teacher will listen to it |
| 12 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 13 | I do n't know why I took hold of the rope , but I did . |
| 14 | Yes that 's been crocheted this one , yeah I ca n't do it , that , that one 's a knitted one , but I ca n't erm I just ca n't crochet , I can knit I 've tried , but I 've tried I just ca n't do it I do n't know why I take the hobby my plants , I 've , I grow those violets from leaves , look behind |
| 15 | I 'm sure I do n't know why you took 'er in if yer did n't mean to treat 'er kindly . |
| 16 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 17 | I do n't know why he took it so fucking personally . |
| 18 | Well not only that they find that flat shoes or shoes with very little heel is a lot more comfortable to wear what happens eventually you take . |
| 19 | ‘ When they came home I took time off a typing course I was doing so we could be together . |
| 20 | It were this greyish thing you know , if I got , as long as I got my car warmed up it took frost , i ice off of window . |
| 21 | I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled . |
| 22 | When Clare came back everyone took their places . |
| 23 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |
| 24 | When he came out he took me off to water his vegetables . |
| 25 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 26 | Here he describes how he took the Caribbean by storm |
| 27 | He noticed how they took chairs at some distance from one another and from him . |
| 28 | Withdrawing the needle , Sophie said , ‘ It remains to be seen how he takes the shock . |
| 29 | So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings . |
| 30 | THE Clinton team had no real defence plans when it took office , beyond a vague determination to cut spending . |