Example sentences of "be go take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They said they 're going to take ten days to make up their mind Lynda so we 'll give them the benefit of the doubt .
2 I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to .
3 But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents !
4 So I am going to go this way round , right , and I 'm going to take some doughnuts .
5 Because I 'm going to take some measures to … speed things up .
6 If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs .
7 He is going to take some photographs .
8 Of course , as a scientist who 's planning an expedition that 's going to take 200 years to get underway , Charles has his critics within the Oxford establishment .
9 But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not .
10 The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred .
11 That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks .
12 If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ?
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