Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] take [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh no way do I want to take that |
2 | I mean to take another example er and this illustrates Mary-Jane 's point about it , it can be conscious , is is n't there a tendency would n't you say John for Clinton to see himself as Kennedy returned ? |
3 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
4 | And I hate to take that particularly because if you are bored with this book |
5 | Do I need to take both packets ? |
6 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
7 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
8 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
9 | ‘ I want to take another look at the gibbons . |
10 | This month I want to take some of the mystery out of ribber work , by looking at the basics of how the carriages function . |
11 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
12 | ‘ I want to take this opportunity of thanking you , Mr … , and all the doctors and nurses here who have shown so much kindness to me . |
13 | I want to take this tape out really when I gone out to Asda . |
14 | I 'd taken all my clothes off |
15 | to take cough and things like , and I nearly died the other night , I 'd taken one and I 'd taken some of this cough , |
16 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
17 | I forgot to take those rotten grapefruits back to Sainsbury 's . |
18 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
19 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
20 | Do I have to take that ? |
21 | Nor would I have taken that any more seriously than I took his actual words . |
22 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
23 | Then I decided to take some of it back to the shore with me . |
24 | I decided to take this new paint to task on a painting trip to the island of Sark , in the Channel Islands . |
25 | ‘ When I started taking those wickets last summer , I began did begin to think I had a chance of representing my country but , to be truthful , I did n't think it could be more than the England A side . |
26 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
27 | Yeah , but I thought Take That was for twelve year olds . |
28 | Now I keep taking this Shelabruse it clears , and it comes back . |
29 | ‘ We sha n't be here much longer — if I do take this job , only another month . |
30 | I 'm still conscious of what I wear , I have n't completely lost track of fashion , but I do take more care now to see that my body is well covered , especially my head . |