Example sentences of "[conj] you take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 2 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 3 | where you take a picture of a building and you |
| 4 | I suggest that you take a day or two to think of it , but remember that my cousin may find other employment in the meantime . ’ |
| 5 | It is therefore important that you take a route which is likely to succeed . |
| 6 | If your cheesemonger cuts a Swaledale for the person in front of you , make sure that you take a piece as well . |
| 7 | I would like to suggest that you take a piece of paper and rule it as follows ( see table on page 184 ) , including the headings Short Term , Long Term and Ultimate Goals , and separating them into two sections — Tangible and Intangible . |
| 8 | and go around there , well , going back to this one , you 're bearing , right , you 're at S and you take a bearing on this ship , J , and the bearing is two hundred and twenty five degrees , now the one ship at J takes a bearing on you , and he gets forty five degrees , well that angle , there , is always the same as that one |
| 9 | ‘ The truth is , ’ Rosa began , in her most teacherly tones , ‘ that when you want a man , and you look around and you ca n't see the one you like , you go into the kitchen , and you take a pound of the whitest flour , a pound of the whitest sugar , a pound of the most refined fat you have , and a flask of rosewater and a handful of raisins , another of currants , half a pound of almonds ground to paste , a squeeze of lemon-juice , a pinch of cinnamon and a sprinkle of powdered clove . |
| 10 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 11 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 12 | Swimming is regarded as one of the best all-round forms of exercise , but a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers shows you could be at risk from stomach upsets and skin rashes if you take a dip in dirty public swimming pools . |
| 13 | Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know . |
| 14 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 15 | So if you take a proportion , then what happens ? |
| 16 | But if you take a proportion of it , you 're only offered that proportion again . |
| 17 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 18 | If you take a sample er , of ce the cera cereblis fluid during the course of acute bacteria meningitis you will find it 's drowning , drowning , not due the fact that it 's an organism , but present , being due to the presence of puss cells . |
| 19 | If you take a look at the date of the file CPU-INFO.EXE , you 'll see that if was produced in 1987 , which is a little before the introduction of the Intel 80486 processor . |
| 20 | P.S. I really hate to mention this , but if you take a look around you , I think you 'll notice that you 've blown your four-set clause . |
| 21 | So what I think , that 's another thing about this , I have erm , there 's something about the plainness of design that I like if it 's erm the things that have been done that are erm like Adobe typefaces or Bertol typefaces , that are really beautifully , you know , sandpapered and finished to me are boring and when you get into , if you take a look at the schedule that A T F produce typefaces in it 's not unlike it , I mean the modern equivalent is the Font Bureau do 'em and try to sell 'em . |
| 22 | If you take a shape from the STANDARD section in to the ORIGINAL section , the points for that shape will of course already exist . |
| 23 | If you take a degree in English Literature or International Relations , you will do so with the intention of learning about the subject . |
| 24 | You will wonder no more if you stay here and , if you take a fancy to the bed you sleep in , Signora Silvana , who speaks excellent English , will sell it to you ! |
| 25 | If you take a film of this , you can easily tell whether it is being run forward or backward . |
| 26 | and if you take a film of of erm Hitler and er people of that ilk in the second world war and you analyse almost frame by frame you 'll see that and count the number of non-symmetrical hand gestures you will find that they 're quite high as a percentage . |
| 27 | so there 's a lot of scope , by , in other words , if you take a multiple , if you did , if you know four closes and you only use two , you might get away with it |
| 28 | ‘ What about your business … wo n't it suffer if you take a holiday ? ’ |
| 29 | If you take a train ride into any of our major cities you will see thousands of long narrow gardens in serried ranks on either side of the track . |
| 30 | If you take a lump sum , the amount by which your pension will be reduced is mainly determined by your age . |