Example sentences of "just take " in BNC.

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1 It 's OK , doc , I 'll just take an aspirin , ’ said another .
2 But it might just take the form of going to the bar to buy drinks for everyone . ’
3 Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’
4 ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . )
5 If I could just take one example to illustrate this .
6 ‘ But you must do something , you ca n't just take it . ’
7 Or should he just take it off again and hope that she 'd come back in time .
8 There was a pause and then , ‘ We 'll just take one more . ’
9 I mean , they ca n't just take your house away ! ’
10 Should I just take a peek through the windows of those double doors — see if I can see him — Vern 's dad ?
11 If you find your throat is dry and you need some water just take a few sips to moisten your mouth .
12 ‘ I 'll just take her to the ladies ’ . '
13 Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week .
14 One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’
15 Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work !
16 She circled three times , then thought to herself , ‘ Maybe I should just take any exit — at least I 'll be heading somewhere . ’
17 I think if you 'll excuse me I 'll just take a little nap .
18 But do n't just take my word for it .
19 ‘ I 'd rather just take the gear and give them nothing ’ pretends Richard , smiling .
20 And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago .
21 ‘ If we tried to stop him doing it he would just take it up again when he was older .
22 ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place .
23 ‘ Secondly , let's just take the educational side of things .
24 The adventurers can just take the damage and shut the door behind them ; the puppets wo n't follow , they 'll just hurl a torrent of abuse at the cowardly adventurers .
25 Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back .
26 That 's next Wednesday , if we do n't get enough we 'll probably just take a car , but , but anyway , there 's going to be a lot going on actually on this .
27 My 12 × 40 binoculars will just take in the two Pointers to Polaris , Merak and Dubhe , which are 5 degrees of arc apart ; the 7 × 50 pair will contain them very easily , while , naturally , 20 × 70 will not .
28 Perhaps this is a sign of Gill 's effect on me — that nowadays I can say something like , ‘ Why do n't we just take off ? ’
29 In that case could you just take your coats off and put them somewhere erm out of the way .
30 So I wonder whilst I do that er if you would just take note of the safety precautions here .
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