Example sentences of "if [pers pn] took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she took a sudden dislike to a client , or observed one member behaving badly to another , her command , ‘ Out , cunt ! ’ , sent them packing . |
| 2 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 3 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 4 | So if you took a six week period then you 're looking at somewhere around four and a half thousand pounds worth of income . |
| 5 | Now if you took a medical practice booklet they range from three hundred and ninety up to twelve hundred . |
| 6 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps if we took a good running jump — ’ he began . |
| 8 | We can thus put our study on a firmer basis of observation and evidence than if we took a broader domain . |
| 9 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 10 | Its leaders knew there was a serious risk of trouble if it took a mass march into Gqozo 's lair . |
| 11 | The pornography squad had just visited Brian Moore and warned him that if he took a new ‘ adult contact ’ magazine , Way Out , the law would move , fast . |