Example sentences of "take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she would take jolly good care not to let it happen again . |
| 2 | Although he might on one level enjoy his fame and success , his own tendency to withdraw from the world turned such fame into a kind of game which he was happy to play but which he did not take altogether seriously . |
| 3 | Each time you start to worry say to yourself ‘ What action can I take right now to alleviate my fears ? ’ |
| 4 | What action can I take right now ? |
| 5 | That 's what we 're aiming for here — trying to make individually-designed guitars with real integrity that you can take right down off the shelf and use at a gig . ’ |
| 6 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 7 | Those who give can also take -so be careful . |
| 8 | Those who give can also take -so be careful . |
| 9 | Apply the same countdown procedure to other elements , and over-estimate how long things will take rather than under-estimate . |
| 10 | But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth . |
| 11 | However , the notion that it was a profession in its own right and there was a three-year course you could take rather amused me . |
| 12 | When those same pensioners understand that blanket commitments of that type will erode the extra money available to help the poorer end , they may take rather a different view . |
| 13 | I 'm now gon na give you one last exercise then which may take rather more time than we 've got . |
| 14 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 15 | b ) The applied finish might not take properly to the surface and flake off . |
| 16 | well he would n't , do n't take all that long to put guttering up does it ? unless he 's pointing the bricks up , he was there all day yesterday |
| 17 | there , there , there be fighting and shoving and pushing for the power and then it says there that it will look as though the , the north king will take all over , all over the what , what spread all over the earth and then it says gradually he will go right back to his ho go home , gradually will be stepping back , right back to his home and there 's going to be no helper for him |
| 18 | Can I sorry could I could I take obviously take some question people wish to ask a question because I think it 's important that before people start drifting away we actually bring the meeting to some conclusion and determine where we 're gon na go with the meeting once it 's actually passed . |
| 19 | Volvo 's over-the-counter US shares jumped more than $5 on word of a merger with Renault , while Jaguar — the object of a run-up since Ford hinted at takeover plans two weeks ago — fell nearly a dollar on word that rival General Motors will take only a minority share in the British car maker . |
| 20 | If they were opposed , it would take only 24 hours , but if there was no opposition it would take twice that time , because the cheering Romanian population would hold them up with their welcome . |
| 21 | He reckons that today the same job would take only three months . |
| 22 | ‘ And , curiously enough , it would take only a comparatively small rise in wage rates to make an enormous impact on the problem . ’ |
| 23 | But , more important , the participating schools should not take only the very clever . |
| 24 | By considering a simple case where the measured variables could take only two values , he obtained a mathematical expression that must be satisfied by a whole class of local theories . |
| 25 | The polarisation of the photon provides the single dynamical variable that Bell postulates and , as required , it can take only one of the two values : a photon or ‘ parcel ’ of light , may be polarised in a plane either parallel or perpendicular to a defined direction in space . |
| 26 | As there are only a finite number of edge pieces and the process RU can take only one edge piece into a new ‘ edge piece ’ position , this sequence must cycle back to the beginning and we denote this ‘ 7-cycle ’ as ( FR , UF , UL , UB , UR , BR , DR ) . |
| 27 | Further copies would take only 45 seconds . |
| 28 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 29 | At an average speed of 305 km/h the trip would take only 65 minutes . |
| 30 | They will take only the adults , which are shot . |