Example sentences of "[adv] i take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 2 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 3 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 4 | So I took a nick out of my finger and ended up with from the top of my finger . |
| 5 | So I took the book down and there was my speech ; and the response to it was extraordinary . |
| 6 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 7 | ‘ But when I got behind the typewriter I thought , ‘ That ai n't gon na make a very good piece ’ and so I took the piss out of her something rotten . |
| 8 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 9 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 10 | so I took the offer because she she she offered |
| 11 | So I took the price off it when I give it back to Woolworths , er to er |
| 12 | So I took the envelope off those tickets and I tore that up and wrote down and I stuck it in the water heater that the sitting room fire may be on , please check . |
| 13 | And he checked and then he went So I took the bags off the pillows in case they were sweating in the bags and I put them out on the seats . |
| 14 | He 's got turkey salad and he did n't even eat it so I took the , the top off it so he could see the turkey in it , then he changed his mind now , I thought he might . |
| 15 | not re no , no , listen , listen , no listen , listen , listen , it 's not , wait a minute , no , right , it was up there , we thought it was hers but it was n't hers , so I took the wrong one |
| 16 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 17 | Intending to spend two quiet days in Montreal on the way home I took a room in the Mount Royal Hotel there , and almost immediately ran into Pierre Leveque in the lobby . |
| 18 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 19 | Hence I take the view that the absence of any reference to the criterion of proportionality in the B. & Q. judgment is not of fundamental importance and that the reason for the omission lay in the specific circumstances of the case , from which it was clear that any obstacles which might be created were not particularly serious . |
| 20 | A few days later I took a walk down the Kings Road , mostly searching for a pair of brothel creepers . |
| 21 | I went with Father or my brother Jack at first , but later I took the horse and cart up myself . |
| 22 | A welter of figures shot up telling him when I had started work , how often I took a break to scratch my nose or eat a mint and exactly how many key strokes I 'd done all evening . |
| 23 | Well I take a piece of that and I 'll make you a bird table out of the piece of trunk |
| 24 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 25 | Then I take a fairly full swing ( photo 3 ) , but making sure that my feet are securely planted in the sand ( photo 4 ) . |
| 26 | Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end . |
| 27 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 28 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 29 | Then I took a walk along the suddenly alien seashore and tried to work out what to do . |
| 30 | Then I took a walk past my chair , desk and watercooler and over to my office door . |