Example sentences of "he may take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 2 | He may take away my friends . |
| 3 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |
| 4 | Because it takes so long for blood alcohol levels to fall , it 's easy for someone who drinks ‘ modestly ’ at lunch time and after work to go over the limit , even though he may take only four units on each occasion . |
| 5 | Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future . |
| 6 | The Briton may take a dekko , north India 's ‘ Look ! ’ ( just as , from British rule in Egypt , he may take a shufti — though one who takes a butchers has gone no further east than Bow bells and the cockney rhyming slang of a butcher 's 'ook ) . |
| 7 | He may take office during a period of crisis when the American people are willing to suspend their paranoia about leadership . |
| 8 | He may take with him any duly authorised person and any equipment he needs and he may take measurements , photographs and recordings that are necessary for any examination or investigation . |
| 9 | He may take with him any duly authorised person and any equipment he needs and he may take measurements , photographs and recordings that are necessary for any examination or investigation . |
| 10 | He may take samples and can require any person to give him information relevant to his examination or investigation , to answer questions and to sign a declaration of the truth of the answers . |
| 11 | It may be , and often is , that when the child reaches adolescence , his interest for drawing and painting may diminish , and he may take up some other form of self expression , but his early adventures in Painting will colour the whole of his later life . |
| 12 | But there is a compulsion to adopt one or the other , and whichever course he may take he can not obtain possession of his goods without handing over to the collector either absolutely or conditionally the amount claimed as duty . |
| 13 | Such a man shall be exposed to wind and weather , suspended between the high and low tidemarks , from night until morning — so that he may take time to consider his wickedness , and repent … . ’ |
| 14 | He may take me tonight and then reject me tomorrow . |
| 15 | You know , he may take you for a meal after he 's stayed a , a fortnight , and it 'll , he might lose his wallet , or , take you to the sausage and chips place round the corner , so he , he 's a nightmare . |