Example sentences of "want to take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do you just want to take the pages out ? |
| 2 | " Can you come as far as Islington , do you want to take the cab after that ? " |
| 3 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 4 | Says Marcus Lyon : ‘ You are always going to get the lazy buyer who wants a barn conversion because they do n't want to take the time and trouble to do it themselves . ’ |
| 5 | Sydney said that he was very pleased that someone should want to take the time , money and effort to operate a Great War aerodrome and expressed his thanks to Torquil , Vic and all that had made it possible … |
| 6 | I did n't want to take the time to work this out with my tension swatch ( this had 30 stitches and 44 rows to 10 centimetres ) . |
| 7 | ‘ No wonder Shrub did n't want to take the geese any closer . ’ |
| 8 | So do we want to take the preamble and then and go through one by one . |
| 9 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 10 | Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side . |
| 11 | You may want to take the advice of your Consulate . ’ |
| 12 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 13 | If , over the years , you suspect that there has been a swing to or away from attending more than once a Sunday , you may want to take the trouble of further refining your data . |