Example sentences of "if [pron] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if I took the classes then you would take me onto your books ? ’ |
| 2 | But he said he 'd pay me a fiver if I took the fish out for a bit of fresh air in the hope that it might drop off to sleep . |
| 3 | If I took the children there it would be a real breach . |
| 4 | I thought it might help if I took the flowers off him , so I reached out and lifted them carefully , holding the stem ends away from me . |
| 5 | ‘ Would it make you feel any better if I took the cardigan down to her , ’ said Yanto . |
| 6 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 7 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 8 | If I take the rest away and try and Who normally sticks one in the library , or |
| 9 | If I take the wings of the morning and |
| 10 | If I take the Metro you can almost see the petrol gauge dying in front of you . ’ |
| 11 | Erm if you er if I take the Greater York area for example , erm if you er if I take the Greater York area for example , the County Council erm have included in their figure of four thousand seven hundred and ten units , no new allocations , is my understanding . |
| 12 | Erm if you er if I take the Greater York area for example , erm if you er if I take the Greater York area for example , the County Council erm have included in their figure of four thousand seven hundred and ten units , no new allocations , is my understanding . |
| 13 | And if I take the book away , and so the pen is trying to push the book over . |
| 14 | ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house . |
| 15 | I shall only be able to convince another person that such-and-such is the case if I take the trouble to present evidence which is available to both my challenger and myself . |
| 16 | If I take the time necessary for pupils to really understand a topic , then I will certainly have trouble exposing them to everything that is expected . |
| 17 | ‘ Sharon , sweetheart , I hope you wo n't mind terribly if I take the passenger seat ? ’ |
| 18 | Well , she was going to need a lot of help , that was for sure , and if someone took the trouble to put an advert in the tube , the least you could do was memorise the number . |
| 19 | Carrie said , in a hurt , distant voice , ‘ Much what you 'd think , I suppose , if someone took the roof off your house . |
| 20 | But if she took the stallion at the end of that three weeks , he came back in another eleven days in case er she was n't settled you see . |
| 21 | Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion . |
| 22 | If you took the work supervisors out |
| 23 | Yeah , but if you took the watch off it should stop . |
| 24 | It 's actually you know , if you took the time you make a tremendous , it 'd make a tremendous big area would n't it ? |
| 25 | Secondly , think what would happen if you took the troops out of Northern Ireland tonight . |
| 26 | If you took the lump sum and |
| 27 | It all seemed to me one more way of getting people to stop thinking for themselves — a highly convenient and complacent way of life — for if you took the advice offered and made a mess of things , then it could always be someone else 's fault . |
| 28 | In fact , if you took the trouble to read through the policy you would see it 's very understandable . |
| 29 | If you take the south west peninsula coast path near Penzance you 'll see the famous landmark of St Michael 's Mount . |
| 30 | If you take the chance , make the act of faith , the moments come . |