Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got some more of these sheets if anybody wants them There are a lot of them on my door , and not very many of them are taken away . |
| 2 | The delightful tunes are all there , but some of them are taken too slowly , and some of the settings are either lachrymose or slurred . |
| 3 | No ; I am taking up too much time already . |
| 4 | I shall conclude now because I am taking up valuable time . |
| 5 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 6 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
| 7 | I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm sorry if I 'm taking up your valuable time , but look on the bright side , ’ she said with unarguable logic . |
| 9 | Erm thank you Mr Mayor , erm I 'm taking up to speak about the community arts . |
| 10 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 11 | By the way I 'm taking on homeworkers . ’ |
| 12 | Now at the same time as ordering the bricks I 'm taking on myself to order the tiles for the roof at the same time . |
| 13 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
| 14 | No , I 'm taking not bothering . |
| 15 | And I 'm taking right . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm taking off my shirt . ’ |
| 17 | Well for exam well at least I know how much sodium I 'm taking in or what |
| 18 | You know if I start saying something I 'm noticing myself think you know I 'm taking too long to say it . |
| 19 | At least , at least if I had another job you see and er well I 'm taking home two hundred odd two hundred pound a week . |
| 20 | I 'm gon na tell you what come the twelfth right anything I do n't want damaged I 'm taking home and locking up . |
| 21 | I 've also got a lot of equipment I 'm taking out on the road to be able to write and play , improvise to tapes and so on . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm taking out one of Colleoni 's mannequins these days . |
| 23 | It 's just one I 'm taking out and lying on the floor . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'm left there shivering about two or three hours then I 'm taken upstairs and interrogated by these three very heavy-looking military guys . |
| 25 | I certainly look at television and adverts and I 'm taken in by it |
| 26 | ‘ So I 'm taken back down and I 'm wondering what the hell 's going on . |
| 27 | What if Mercia and I were to take over Northumbria ? ’ |
| 28 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 29 | All I could think about while I was taking up that extraordinary inheritance was you . ’ |
| 30 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |