Example sentences of "might [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you might want to take a look at young Timothy here . |
| 3 | For example , you might want to take a country record and copy the inflections of some singer 's voice ; doing that will give you something completely new . |
| 4 | If you think you might want to take an HIV antibody test to find out if you are infected , it is important to know what the test can and can not tell you . |
| 5 | In addition , he might consider taking a shower or some exercise on waking , procedures which are aimed at stressing a regular start to the day . |
| 6 | Residence Elena has a small lake where guests might like to take a swim , except on Thursdays , Saturdays and Sundays when they are invited to use the lake for a little fishing . |
| 7 | The date was first fixed as the 13th July , in International Eisteddfod week , as I thought members might like to take a look at the eisteddfod after a ride on the train . |
| 8 | Other knitters with this machine might like to take the precaution of buying a couple of clamps so that the same thing can not happen to them . |
| 9 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 10 | This evening after dinner you might wish to take the train ( 20 minutes ) in to Amsterdam for an exhilarating evening in what is undoubtedly Europe 's most surprising city . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ There are people who might try to take the law into their own hands if they find that the police and community leaders are not achieving results . |
| 12 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 13 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 14 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |
| 15 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 16 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 17 | Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood . |
| 18 | He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour . |
| 19 | It may not be , and Hakel and Reimer might have taken the opportunity to sow more seeds of doubt , or at least put the certified cause of death in an historical perspective : 100 years ago a recorded cause of death from heart disease ( except for congenital malformations and valve defects ) was barely known , yet ischaemic heart disease must surely have existed . |
| 20 | Lorrimer would hardly have risked telephoning from the Laboratory or from home in the evenings when he , Howarth , might have taken the call . |
| 21 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 22 | And he bent towards her and extracted a kiss from her reluctant lips the way he might have taken the pit from an apricot . |
| 23 | Had the police done nothing , farmers might have taken the law into their own hands . |
| 24 | Danger men such as Gerald Kaufman and John Prescott , who might have taken the wrapping off the chocolate box , were kept hidden from sight . |
| 25 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
| 26 | But if John Smith was cavalierly hiring and firing the shadow Scottish secretary , some more MPs might start taking an interest , which would be wholly undesirable in the leader 's office . |
| 27 | When the Moi trackers again descended from the lookout trees shaking their heads , Joseph on an impulse asked Jacques Devraux if he might climb to take a look with Chuck 's binoculars . |
| 28 | ‘ Might help to take an inch or two off your waistline . ’ |