Example sentences of "[pron] would take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would take good care to see that it was the end of your career . ’ |
| 2 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 3 | I would take better care of him afterwards , ’ he says . |
| 4 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 5 | President , I would take this opportunity on behalf of the region to condra sorry , congratulate Nigel on the excellent work that he has done since becoming the National Health and Safety Officer . |
| 6 | Financial management advice and services has continued to be provided by Napier University Ventures Limited and I would take this opportunity to thank Ed Angus and all his staff for the hard work and support they give to the Enterprise Centre . |
| 7 | Yeah , I would take some credit for that but you 've got to remember that in Fleetwood Mac I was working with great writers and great singers . ’ |
| 8 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 9 | They do n't and to be dramatic they 'd be very , very silly to do so because I would take any step to avoid that happening . |
| 10 | I would take three classes and exercise at least another 12 hours each week . |
| 11 | The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration . |
| 12 | This processing , which would take 2,000 hours in the Mixing Department , where labour is paid £12 per hour , would save the company additional purchasing costs of £5,000 . |
| 13 | The scene in the book where Robyn arrives at the factory for the first time and goes and has a conversation with Wilcox , that 's four pages , which would take 15 minutes in playing time if you acted it out . |
| 14 | A born poseur , she would take great pleasure in performing tricks to admiring audiences along the ritzy Avenue de la Croisette in Cannes . |
| 15 | She would take another day off and then go back to work . |
| 16 | Dana took her time in following her sister , and Claudia imagined she would take full advantage of her sister 's absence . |
| 17 | ‘ By stating that she would take sick time because her holiday request had been denied , she appeared to be abusing the company sick scheme , ’ said Mrs Proffitt . |
| 18 | It is envisaged that the investigation officer would be a legal officer in the Civil Service with special training , who would take full statements from parties to the dispute and any key witnesses and inspect all the documentation relevant to the case . |
| 19 | ‘ But then , I might have known you would take that attitude . |
| 20 | Imagine you did the entire 45-mile journey at 70 mph , you would take 41 minutes . |
| 21 | And you would take this book and you 'd put a hard piece of it was a kind of a a cardboard that would n't absorb water I 've forgotten what the thing was made of . |
| 22 | Drive it at 90 mph — and you would take 36 minutes . |
| 23 | In the Budget , we announced that we would take most family businesses out of Inheritance Tax altogether . |
| 24 | ‘ If we had a full-strength team , you can rest assured we would take some beating in the First Division . ’ |
| 25 | We would take 6 men at random from the 30 men , and 4 women at random from the 20 women . |
| 26 | We would take this opportunity to express our wish for continued cooperation and communication between management and staff and welcome this news sheet as a vehicle for this . |
| 27 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 28 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 29 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 30 | They would take separate holidays at least once every two years ; they would have at most two children and at a time of her choosing ; neither would publicly humiliate the other ; the spectrum of marital offences under this heading ranging from spoiling the other 's dinner-party stories to a too-public infidelity . |