Example sentences of "[pers pn] take some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took some work to show him and he was very generous about it . ’ |
| 2 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 3 | I took some clothes and tools , and also a box of Spanish gold and silver money . |
| 4 | Last year , I took some English . |
| 5 | I took some photographs ; then , tired and happy , lay on the mound and watched some large , white clouds with grey bellies drift like giant manta rays through the swirling air . |
| 6 | Cos I took some photographs of Sammy , he got a picture of Sammy in there , picture of Nat . |
| 7 | I took some measures through the Arts Council to help the cash flows of some of the institutions that were threatened by the delays in that funding . |
| 8 | I took some tapes with me to Saint-Moritz and listened , and thought , my goodness , this is quite wrong . |
| 9 | I took some pills . ’ |
| 10 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 11 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
| 12 | Personally , I take some comfort in knowing that I in no way contributed to our exit from Division Two . |
| 13 | I recognise them and with each recognition I take some comfort . |
| 14 | I feel that the facilities provided by the Careers Service have never had greater significance and I take some consolation in knowing that the current team is well structured and dedicated to providing the best possible service in finding careers and fulfilment for graduates from the University ’ . |
| 15 | Can you take some bloods for chemistry , and we 'll start her on streptokinase . |
| 16 | Should you take some Beecham 's powders along , do you think ? |
| 17 | She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table . |
| 18 | Eventually she took some goods her husband had left at her lodgings to the Police Station . |
| 19 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 20 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 21 | So she took some tea and some bread-and-butter while she thought about it . |
| 22 | In another recent case , two-year-old James Austin , who had been left strapped into his baby seat by his mother , was driven away while she took some refuse to a rubbish dump some 50 yards from her parked car . |
| 23 | But she took some coffee and began to drink . |
| 24 | Gillian snorted as she repeated her husband 's gallantry , but it was plain she took some pleasure in it too . |
| 25 | She would have no trouble catching him on paper , but she took some photographs just to make sure . |
| 26 | She took some gravel off the top of the pill-box and threw it through one of the slits . |
| 27 | She cut two thin slices and then , from a plastic container , she took some margarine and spread it on the bread . |
| 28 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 29 | the shock , go up to them and say you know , have you had your right amount or have you taken some sugar and very often they 'll pull up and ah yes I 've overdone it . |
| 30 | My God , yes , if you take some sand in your hand , if you look at it closely and also water , and also air , they are all colourless , looked " at in this way . |