Example sentences of "i take [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge , an ex-RAF flying officer brought out of retirement for the trial , told the men : ‘ I take into account that none of this would have happened if the girl had not gone to your barracks for sex . |
| 2 | I take into account , among other factors , these . |
| 3 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 4 | ‘ They have called me a rotten apple , which , coming from them , I take as a compliment , ’ he says . |
| 5 | I take as a second period the ten years thereafter until the parents are about their early seventies . |
| 6 | I take as the third period that which follows upon the death or incapacity of the parents . |
| 7 | That I take as a sort of axiom , as given to start with , in this argument . |
| 8 | That I take as a sort of axiom , as , as , as given to start with in this argument . |
| 9 | I have a good job , a flat , a car , a mortgage , I take at least one holiday abroad every year , I have plenty of friends , life is full of possibilities . |
| 10 | I take at random an ELT book from my shelf ( Success with English , 1 , Ch 12 ) in which Martin and Jillian are sticking photographs in an album . |
| 11 | I take on board these ideas for these two days . |
| 12 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 13 | He says he has to go bat-fowling for what I take for granted — whatever bat-fowling may be . ’ |
| 14 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 15 | And writing like this , if not indeed the writing of Thrones in general , I take to be inexcusable . |
| 16 | There is litter on the seats of the train I take to Westminster . |
| 17 | But the way in which the very limits of its historical materialism ( which I take to be the most developed statement of the case available in English ) put back on the agenda questions one had considered closed . |
| 18 | As he explains , ‘ Those immediate objects of perception , which according to [ some ] … are only appearances of things , I take to be the real things themselves . ’ |
| 19 | That pain in the back of my neck is four pairs of eyes watching every step I take to the church . |
| 20 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 21 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 22 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 23 | I shall single out those writers whom I take to be the most significant among contemporary anti-individualist social scientists ; I shall examine in some detail the nature of the assumptions embedded in their practice ; and I shall seek to assess the coherence of the social explanations those assumptions lead them to produce . |
| 24 | In this chapter I therefore discuss what I take to be the strongest case for absolute holism in contemporary social science , the case expounded by Louis Althusser . |
| 25 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 26 | The approach which I take to the subject is one concerned almost exclusively with the Anglo-American tradition , though Hegel is allowed into the last chapter , at the end of which I give some references to sample writings in the continental tradition , especially critical theory . |
| 27 | ( c ) Another point which I take to be in favour of the theory is that it begins to make some theoretical sense of the intuitive feeling that what was wrong in the Gettier cases was that there was too much luck around . |
| 28 | From her rises that familiar scent which I take to be human . |
| 29 | I have merely tried to unravel what I take to be some of the main underlying oversimplifications which have informed educational practices in the field of ‘ race ’ and education , whether state-led or self-consciously oppositionist . |
| 30 | Kepler 's theory I take to be his three laws of planetary motion . |