Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | I 'd taken all my clothes off |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 8 | I forgot to take those rotten grapefruits back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 9 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then I decided to take some of it back to the shore with me . |
| 12 | I decided to take this new paint to task on a painting trip to the island of Sark , in the Channel Islands . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 15 | Yeah , but I thought Take That was for twelve year olds . |
| 16 | Right , this is an extremely good slide , I did take this myself , erm of the actual dress of the eighteen forties , I 'll just sort of point out its components . |
| 17 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 18 | ‘ I had to take most of the deliveries near my head ’ , said Farbrace . |
| 19 | Apart from wanting the law or whatever to catch up with him ( which it did n't ) , I had taken little notice , and no interest , in John 's furtive and elaborate preparations for travel — the series of interviews with the Reverend Kreditor , for example . |
| 20 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 21 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 22 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 23 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 24 | See I wanted to take that . |
| 25 | That 's a point , I wanted to take some stronger painkillers back with me , what have you got ? |
| 26 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 27 | Now , when their findings came out that the cell there were cells that appeared to correspond to feature detectors in the real world , a number of theories immediately popped up which tried to take this into account . |
| 28 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 29 | After two weeks nobody had taken any . |
| 30 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |