Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] take [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do you want me to take another look ? ’
2 Well do you want me to take some straw in ?
3 I tried smaller hooks and baits ; lighter leads ; finer lines ; a lighter , or no bite indicator ; and opening the bale-arm of the reel and allowing them to take several yards of line before striking .
4 The University seeks to include in its courses activities which promote enterprising qualities in its students by encouraging them to take more responsibility for their own learning , setting their own goals and targets through personal assessment and career planning .
5 To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria .
6 Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’
7 Who said : ‘ I do n't think I take any part in his downfall whatsoever . ’ ?
8 The glamour girl said she felt no guilt over Mr Mellor 's resignation and declared : ‘ I do n't think I take any part in his downfall whatsoever . ’
9 As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action .
10 If you do n't get a job , I will get a job for the time being and you want me to take some money off your bill , you can get rid of some of that rubbish out in that fucking shed , in the back of that van
11 Second , by pooling their financial resources , the merging companies may enjoy better creditworthiness and access to cheaper borrowing , enabling them to take more risks and finance larger research projects .
12 It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ .
13 ‘ I want you to take that money from Bella 's house . ’
14 I want you to take another look at that new Carefree proposal — the duty-free airport shops .
15 I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’
16 Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ?
17 Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ .
18 Yeah yeah but erm what I 'm saying is you can tax them take that surplus , cream it off , create an equal society direct state intervention invest it in factories , whatever .
19 Let me take that man 's place , please . ’
20 In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did
21 Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date .
22 Let me take this guy away — I 'll let him go — then I 'll disappear .
23 So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat
24 He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it .
25 " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to .
26 Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz .
27 But let us take another view of this perfectionism that Karajan is accused of , with another quotation :
28 ‘ Look , Sir John , let us take these events from the beginning . ’
29 Let us take some examples of Third World bourgeoisies and see to what extent they confirm or refute the emergence of a transnational capitalist class .
30 ‘ I could make you take that back , ’ he said , his voice a low growl very close to her ear .
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