Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local authority may seek to take a child into care where : |
| 2 | Even if he is walking well , you may need to take a wheelchair in case he gets tired , or you can plan the outing so that you walk short distances between benches in the street or local park . |
| 3 | Within the first year of residence you should make arrangements to obtain a Northern Ireland licence and you may need to take a driving test before a licence can be granted . |
| 4 | For example , students may opt to take a specialist module in Graphics for Screen Media , the objectives of which include critical study of the application of graphic design to electronic publications and investigation of the design initiation and design development procedures for electronic publications . |
| 5 | ‘ Strange you should want to take a look at this place . |
| 6 | If a receiving office makes use of a referral from an originating office then one should assume that the originating office will take his fee from his client and the receiving office should seek to take a fee , either finders fee or fee for professional assistance , from his client or contact . |
| 7 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 8 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 9 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 10 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
| 11 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
| 12 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 14 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 15 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
| 16 | His trip should have taken a month . |
| 17 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 18 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 19 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 20 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 21 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 22 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 23 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 24 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 25 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 27 | Backpackers faced with an already heavy load should resist taking a gamble on the weather — it 's far better to adjust your plans to suit your load and the condition than risk a one-way ticket . |
| 28 | Some candidates may choose to take a course and gather evidence of competence in parallel . |
| 29 | If you are single , healthy and in your 20s , then it is probably worth very little to you , and you might prefer to take a cash alternative if one were on offer . |
| 30 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |