Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 2 | Oh what 's that one Bare Naked Ladies , I 'd better not play that just at the moment oh what 's this one oh Billy Joel so so I 'd better take that out you I 'm always tempted to forget what I 've actually played and what I 'm not going to play . |
| 3 | I think I 'd better take these books back down again I think , oh mind you I can put them up here perhaps . |
| 4 | No , I do n't think I had even taken any A levels when I left school . ’ |
| 5 | I had already taken this out . |
| 6 | I had just taken another look at Debonair — at Vron , my future stepmother . |
| 7 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 8 | If you 've finished with your face you 'd better take that dog out . ’ |
| 9 | A farmer might tell one of his workmen : ‘ You 'd better take that dutfin [ bridle ] to the knacker 's . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd better take that brolly with you . |
| 11 | You 'd better take some sandwiches . " |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better take this seriously . ’ |
| 13 | It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded . |
| 14 | Poor Viola , she had just taken that indecent part for the money . |
| 15 | Already the whole class had begun to warm towards Miss Honey , although as yet she had hardly taken any notice of any of them except Matilda . |
| 16 | I also begged the Queen to let Glumdalclitch stay with me , because she had always taken such good care of me . |
| 17 | Pound sent me a card , which I still have , naming place and date , and saying , rather peremptorily , ‘ I think you had better take this in . ’ |
| 18 | Okay , I think we 'd better take this slowly . |
| 19 | Nurses at the infirmary have just been praised by the Audit Commission for their work on discharge planning , and a group of sisters in the orthopaedic unit confirmed that they had long taken this seriously . |
| 20 | Er he he 'd just taken some photographs out of last year 's er annual report and put a heading up and stuck some text on it . |
| 21 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 22 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |