Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll fill out a , I 'll take about six case up . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll take more careful aim , ’ |
| 3 | The physics baffles me , the philosophy bores me — but I know that I would take about seven years for me to write out all the digits in a statement of the odds against encountering another ship in Highlight . |
| 4 | I shall take only two examples . |
| 5 | I will take just one example . |
| 6 | Well I 'm not off , I 'm just working in the off in the office , so I can take possibly some Thursday mornings off |
| 7 | I 'm now gon na give you one last exercise then which may take rather more time than we 've got . |
| 8 | When the pork is crispy and dry , which should take about 4 minutes , remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper . |
| 9 | Do n't try to hurry the programme of exercises , which should take about twenty minutes or so . |
| 10 | The reaction to the message we sent to the President via our embassy in Washington , which might take quite some time , for even the most cooperative of banks , and banks almost by definition are secretive and detest the very thought of cooperation , are going to be very reluctant to disclose any information about their important clients , because important clients do n't like that sort of thing . |
| 11 | The foundations of C12 would involve the movement of about 45 m³ ; of material , which would take approximately 90 man-hours . |
| 12 | We are also planning the Heathrow Express rail link which will take just 16 minutes from Paddington . |
| 13 | The work , which will take about six years to complete , will provide a new operating block , intensive care unit , outpatients ' department , accident and emergency unit , medical records centre and new main entrance . |
| 14 | Consider the concept , common in high-level languages , of the boolean variable , that is , a variable which can take only two values ( true and false ) and upon which the usual boolean functions — and , or , etc.ban be Performed . |
| 15 | Unless you have a fair experience of building handicrafts and a lot of time on your hands , you will probably need to hire a builder , and you should take as much care over this as possible since the quality of building work varies very substantially indeed , and two different firms of builders , next to each other in the ‘ Yellow Pages ’ may reflect totally different standards and attitudes . |
| 16 | She smiled , feeling thankful she 'd take so much trouble over her make-up — but who would n't when they were going out with Silas ? |
| 17 | Though she would take jolly good care not to let it happen again . |
| 18 | I thought you said they 'd take about four hours . ’ |
| 19 | This is not only damaging to the final exam marks of the Student ( since a Student who had managed 60% in the Final Examination could fail because their End of Module Tests reduce the mark ) , but foolish , since they can take as many retakes of the End of Module Tests as they wish in order to achieve a good pass-mark . |
| 20 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 21 | Even without demolition of walls , it may take only 20–30 years for a masonry building to disappear beneath the ground , but less substantial buildings can disappear even faster . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dry with a hairdryer ( it should take approx 10–15 minutes ) and rinse with warm water — it makes a wonderful treat for your hair . |
| 24 | Mola had estimated that it should take about three weeks to conquer the coastal area as far west as Santander . |
| 25 | It should take only 5 minutes to tell parents how to run the intervention for so many weeks and then return to the baseline . |
| 26 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 27 | It 'll take around 4 years to complete the Gamecock . |
| 28 | It 'll take about four hours in the theatre . ’ |
| 29 | It 'll take about two weeks for the refund to go through , we ca n't actually give it you |
| 30 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |