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Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well I 've took that , I took that some years ago but I 've never seen it on show you know ?
2	I took all these points on board , and indeed took care to explain them to the volunteers before we began work .
3	‘ You know I took all those measurements ? ’
4	I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning .
5	Words of Rea himself : There 's no room for showbiz in my life ; I 'm down to earth ; I take all that fame with a pinch of salt .
6	My producers will tel you that I take much less time over my recordings than some wellknown colleagues .
7	Hari said quietly , ‘ There 's things I need to know before I take any more risks for you . ’
8	Well she takes all these tablet things .
9	She takes all these vitamin pills and god knows what else .
10	Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours .
11	And then , well if you 're going out that way you take all this washing up .
12	Now do you still feel that it is too much for you to take all that lot in in one go , or do you think it 's all it 's it 's it 's gu it 's
13	I advise you to take some such steps yourself .
14	Let me take some more examples .
15	They took two more curtains and then he bawled : ‘ Houselights !
16	If they took all that trouble to send fake bodies back to England and establish the fact that the Bonnards were dead , how could they hope to infiltrate two impostors into the country on their passports ? ’
17	In Westminster they take much less time .
18	Like you say , it takes much more time to get into it .
19	Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification .
20	He takes all these things far too seriously . ’
21	Then from the back of the file he took six more sheets of paper , perused them hurriedly and then signed those too .
22	A shame not to be able to hear , but he knew if he took one more step towards them the scene would break up and he would lose them .
23	For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song .
24	And it took all this time to get here .
25	But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China .
26	It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit .
27	It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly .
28	Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs .
29	But let us take one more look before we return to modernity .
30	Let us take one more example from his " Diffugere nives " : the rendering , at the end of the poem , of as " take away " , making a rhyme with the filler phrase ( mentioned above ) " he must stay " .