Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 2 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 3 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
| 4 | This was a thoroughly inspired performance by the team , for which I must take all the credit . |
| 5 | There are many people who I 'd like to thank for their support and help , and for those I am not able to contact personally , I must take this opportunity to say thanks . |
| 6 | Even at the cost of revealing the whereabouts of the cave to one of the People I must take this specimen there — I must , so great was my urge , thundering in me like the breakers of an ocean . |
| 7 | ‘ I must take this box upstairs . ’ |
| 8 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
| 9 | ‘ Good God , I must take holy orders immediately . ’ |
| 10 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll show , I must take these and show Jean tonight |
| 12 | ‘ I must take another photograph . |
| 13 | Re remind me tomorrow I must take those twenty vouchers |
| 14 | Being a foreigner , I felt I should take that advice . ’ |
| 15 | The whole story is not yet known , although it 's claimed that North Korea er invaded South Korea er I sh I should take that as a hypothesis and not as a fact . |
| 16 | So I should take that back ? |
| 17 | Perhaps I should take one of those … ’ added Meredith , going momentarily off at a tangent . |
| 18 | On my first day there I acted like a young lord , lying on my bed , my boots on , sipping from a cup of canary and wondering what steps I should take next . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't see why I should take any more risks for a man I hardly know . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 21 | You should ta I should take some to my lectures or something . |
| 22 | Well , what I think I shall do now is I think I should take this a little further about this union business , I think I should get in touch with Dave , the Editor of the T U C to find out what the exact position of these , this so called union is because it does n't sound like a union to me , it sounds , it sounds like an . |
| 23 | I might take one of the needles . |
| 24 | I thought I might take another one cos she said the nose is n't quite as , you know |
| 25 | I do n't know how much to take , I might take ten pounds worth or something , I do n't need that much why , I need some money for Saturday as well do n't I ? , should n't need that much though |
| 26 | But I thought to myself , I 'll take two when she is n't looking , which I did . |
| 27 | I 'll take two bob , then , and you can take the one an' six an' the penny interest out of it . |
| 28 | I 'll take two of these . ’ |
| 29 | Lot number fifty five , Lot number fifty five the hanging lamp there 's the hanging lamp showing for a hundred and fifty pounds at a hundred and fifty , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty standing I 'm offered two hundred and twenty pounds , I 'll take two twenty , two forty , two sixty two eighty three hundred three , going on ? |
| 30 | I think I 'll take two in the hopes |