Example sentences of "he [modal v] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ought to take more care . |
| 2 | Having acquired a wife , Leslie began to think that he ought to take some steps towards securing our future . |
| 3 | Part of the treatment therefore requires that Peter should make changes in his lifestyle ; for example , he should take regular meals and avoid spicy foods and alcohol . |
| 4 | The young Principal , with a tact that would help ensure he remained a ‘ high flyer ’ , had suggested that he should take first luncheon if that were agreeable to the Minister , and had disappeared . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS to me to be tough on Dr John Bromley , head of a four-GP practice , that he should take sole blame after a two-year-old boy had wandered into a surgery and swallowed some carbolic acid which should have been locked away . |
| 6 | She cooked superbly , adored her baby sons and mothered her husband , buying him linctus whenever he coughed and insisting he should take cod-liver oil in the winter . |
| 7 | He had reached Blakemere , which was only two miles further on , when he pondered if he should take another direction and make his way to the river , but the thought that even this far out there 'd be a number of people on the banks today , mostly youngsters , he guessed , swimming or playing the usual dangerous game of swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch , deterred him . |
| 8 | ( b ) He must take reasonable steps to explain what he is looking for and the basis of his suspicion ( s.2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 9 | He must take full responsibility for making sure his requirements are met . |
| 10 | He discovered that in order to isolate and demonstrate the importance — or otherwise — of a single factor , he must take more work on board than he had intended : he must attempt a complete English political history from the battle of Sedgemoor ( 1685 ) to the Peace of Amiens ( 1802 ) . |
| 11 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 12 | He 'll take good care of you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do you think he 'll take this bag with him ? ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 15 | Yeah , oh , well April is Easter , April nineteen , twenty , twenty one , twenty two , and it looks like your father he said he might take some time in n it ? |
| 16 | He might take three weeks off after a really hard fight , otherwise he 's back in the gym after three days . ’ |
| 17 | I listened with great fascination to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ( Mr. Dicks ) , thinking that he might take this opportunity to tell the House about his relationship with Professor Bedi , who is now awaiting trial in Brixton prison . |
| 18 | At the end of the year the Board agreed with the Chief Executive , Mr Philip Court , that he could take early retirement , and this took effect from the end of January 1990 . |
| 19 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 20 | He who made the cunts talk went straightaway into the castle ; all ran to salute him and wished to welcome him warmly , in which he could take great pleasure . ) |
| 21 | If the chief officer was of the opinion that the resources available to him were inadequate to prevent the feared disorder , he could take certain steps to have the procession banned altogether . |
| 22 | Miraculously cured of back pains just before he had joined the NSC , he had joined a charismatic Episcopal congregation , in which he kept the church manners of a Catholic ; and where appeals for the contras were concerned he could take either voice , as necessary . |
| 23 | Then one day the main guy who 'd been peeking at us turned up and asked if he could take some pictures of us . |
| 24 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |
| 25 | He used to take some wool , but mainly he was there to sell and his cart carried samples . |
| 26 | He used to take whole concepts , characters and moods from the flatties . |
| 27 | He used to take this affair round various conferences and demonstrate to all and sundry that the crystal could be repeatedly bent to a strain of 2 per cent which is equivalent to a stress of about 600,000 p.s.i . |
| 28 | BANISHED weightlifter Andrew Davies protested his innocence last night and said he would take legal action to clear his name . |
| 29 | This stance may have been the result of the influence of senior officers of the regular army , assisted by a warning from Black 's solicitor that he would take legal proceedings should any new statement or comment on behalf of the army be libellous . |
| 30 | And he would take one ear and then the other ear and pull it through the slots on the bonnet . |