Example sentences of "[adv] i take [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Later on I took a vacation to Los Angeles and called George up and he said , ‘ What hotel are you at right now ?
2 Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across
3 So I took a nick out of my finger and ended up with from the top of my finger .
4 So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady .
5 And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic .
6 So I took the price off it when I give it back to Woolworths , er to er
7 And he checked and then he went So I took the bags off the pillows in case they were sweating in the bags and I put them out on the seats .
8 ‘ But when I got behind the typewriter I thought , ‘ That ai n't gon na make a very good piece ’ and so I took the piss out of her something rotten .
9 So I took the book down and there was my speech ; and the response to it was extraordinary .
10 so I took the offer because she she she offered
11 So I took the envelope off those tickets and I tore that up and wrote down and I stuck it in the water heater that the sitting room fire may be on , please check .
12 The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which
13 ‘ When Dr. Ray called me in I took the precaution of having copies of Dr. Bonnard 's and Mrs. Bonnard 's dental records sent to me by Telex .
14 As soon as school was over I took the train from Hammersmith to Whitechapel , then continued the rest of the journey on foot to Charlie 's home .
15 Intending to spend two quiet days in Montreal on the way home I took a room in the Mount Royal Hotel there , and almost immediately ran into Pierre Leveque in the lobby .
16 ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’
17 Hence I take the view that the absence of any reference to the criterion of proportionality in the B. & Q. judgment is not of fundamental importance and that the reason for the omission lay in the specific circumstances of the case , from which it was clear that any obstacles which might be created were not particularly serious .
18 I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled .
19 A few days later I took a walk down the Kings Road , mostly searching for a pair of brothel creepers .
20 I went with Father or my brother Jack at first , but later I took the horse and cart up myself .
21 A welter of figures shot up telling him when I had started work , how often I took a break to scratch my nose or eat a mint and exactly how many key strokes I 'd done all evening .
22 Well I take a piece of that and I 'll make you a bird table out of the piece of trunk
23 Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ?
24 ‘ Why do n't I take the pair of you for a plate of chips ? ’
25 Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end .
26 Then I took a walk along the suddenly alien seashore and tried to work out what to do .
27 Then I took a walk past my chair , desk and watercooler and over to my office door .
28 The herdsman beat a tactful retreat to the end of the cowshed and then I took the opportunity to say what I thought .
29 Then I took the tablets all at once .
30 And this about half past two the day I , I was that sick , vomited and then I took the bile
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