Example sentences of "i [vb past] take [art] [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 agreed to take the girls there , and for a month I wrote down French words in a little pocket book , to help me on the journey . |
| 3 | I indicated to the Bishop when I agreed to take the canonry that he did n't possess the personal qualities I require in my subordinates . |
| 4 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 5 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 6 | Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby . |
| 7 | Since I stopped taking the chlorambucil , the lumps are beginning to return , which is just as well . |
| 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 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 17 | I wish I 'd taken the money now ! finding I was pregnant scared me more than anything , because my sister Vanessa was also pregnant and saying to me , " I 'm pregnant — what am I going to do ? " |
| 18 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 19 | She wanted other children , and by then I 'd taken the decision never to have any more and had a vasectomy . |
| 20 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 21 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 22 | I had n't needed to serve her : I 'd taken the tray from Cathy . |
| 23 | I tell ye , I was sorry I 'd taken the trouble . ’ |
| 24 | I rather wish I 'd taken the step earlier . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't find out until after I 'd taken the lease on , but the department store on the corner has taken a lot of our casual trade . ’ |
| 26 | And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing . |
| 27 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 30 | 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 . |