Example sentences of "i [vb past] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 2 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 3 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And in the interests of doing a good job I decided to take a look at the place myself . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was a relief to be in the open air again but , lacking a street-rap , I decided to take a taxi to the riverside and find my way about from there . |
| 22 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 23 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 24 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 25 | At the beginning of the riot I went to take a picture of this one anarchist and he whacked me with a stick really hard . |
| 26 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 27 | I did take a step back and look at myself . |
| 28 | Christmas cards go flying I did take a picture of all my birthday cards , |
| 29 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 30 | Now that is the accepted way of doing it , and I can not see any reason why that can not be done , erm in Greater York , once the location for the new settlement is erm er is identified , erm so that 's my definition of erm integrated and balanced community , it 's a concept , you ca n't define , I do n't think , integrated and balanced separately , you need to bind them together er into into some erm er or all er erm concept , erm now the erm the question you did pose me , sir , which er I did take a note of , but I wonder if you 'd be kind enough to repeat it so I 've I 've a I 've a got it quite clear before I respond . |