Example sentences of "[modal v] take [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get a better grade the student must take it from one of the students above by out-performing him or her . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , this should take me about another fortnight . ’ |
| 3 | It might take you till 9 o'clock at night to score some nights . |
| 4 | With me workin' , by the time you got home from work at 5 o'clock , it might take you till 9 o'clock at night to score some nights . |
| 5 | That 's seconded , nice to know we have a straight choice , as you favour , we 'll take them in reverse order . |
| 6 | At least one guidebook giving precise route descriptions has been written about each of the walks and without exception they 'll take you through some of the loveliest countryside we have . |
| 7 | I 'll take you to all the places I loved as a girl . |
| 8 | I 'll take you to one of our previews that we got . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll take you to some place quieter … ’ |
| 10 | For tens of pennies it 'll take you to any one of 20 odd bays or villages in the area . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , they 'll take you for that , all right ; they 're fishing for them like mackerel . ’ |
| 12 | I 'll take it as such ! ’ |
| 13 | I 'll take it in one week but if not , I 'll leave it there . |
| 14 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 15 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 16 | ‘ Luis , ’ I said , ‘ even in England , if a man called me that , I 'd take it as great rudeness . |
| 17 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Charles was saying , after more than an hour of beleaguered explanation , or semi-explanation , ‘ I did n't think you 'd take it like this , old thing , I thought you 'd — well , I thought you 'd be relieved , to tell you the truth . |
| 18 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 19 | It 's like all good things to come , I do n't like to count my chickens , so I 'd rather not , not the little memorandums say , oh you 've got another X million , if only we could take them in this year . |
| 20 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 21 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I could take you to this Hotel Ritz you have spoken of , ’ he suggested . |
| 23 | so we could take it from that stage even |
| 24 | In fact , managers could take it in non-pecuniary terms — in the ( 1963 ) Williamsonian manner . |
| 25 | We needed someone like himself , a Friend of the Tourists , who could take us through Egyptian Customs step by step . |
| 26 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 27 | Occasionally , if you are lucky , your account executive may take you to one of those much-talked-about business lunches , or at least buy you a drink . |
| 28 | However , you will be tired by all this flurry of activity because you will still be doing regular work and the proposal — writing may take you into late nights and weekend work . |
| 29 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 30 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |