Example sentences of "i [verb] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 2 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 3 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 4 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 5 | I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 6 | You 're er for the moment you 're not committed to a party , you 've just got to take an individual decision and I know Maastricht is very complicated but there 's a lot of gut feeling as well as precise knowledge about these things , so I want to take a vote . |
| 7 | Tell you what , I want to take a bag of crisps , and then if I sit with him |
| 8 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 9 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 10 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 12 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 13 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 14 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 15 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 16 | Would I like to take a turn round the garden ? |
| 17 | I remember one particular occasion when , on finding ‘ Cheer up Mona ’ written on the blackboard when I arrived to take a class , I went absolutely potty , threatening dire punishment on the whole class — the entire school almost — unless the culprit came forward . |
| 18 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 19 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 20 | So if we 're we 're if we get if we get past that erm er that that point of am I going to take a flier . |
| 21 | Well I remember I like to take a while I ca n't stand the most of them . |
| 22 | I remember taking a girl out once and I really did fancy her — oh , she was beautiful . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a fantastic experience , and I remember taking a photograph of Harold Abrahams at the start of the 100 metres race that he won . |
| 24 | Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one . |
| 25 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 26 | And in the interests of doing a good job I decided to take a look at the place myself . ’ |
| 27 | While my mother was away I decided to take a trip myself , and took refuge in my old home town , South Shields , now changed almost unrecognizably . |
| 28 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 29 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 30 | On my last full day in Sligo Town , I decided to take a taxi southeasterly into County Leitrim , and if possible see Woodbrook , the house brought to life by the able pen of David Thomson . |