Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] take some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
| 2 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 3 | I 'll take some Bovril up for 'er too , and some sausage rolls , we all 'ave to keep body an' soul together . |
| 4 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 5 | If I wanted I could take some revenge on him , which would also — some puny power — be a bitter reproach to my own pointless life . |
| 6 | Glancing towards his staff' he said , ‘ I could take some coaching from the sidelines , if anyone can recall my legislative program . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , I would take some credit for that but you 've got to remember that in Fleetwood Mac I was working with great writers and great singers . ’ |
| 8 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 9 | I shall take some dates . |
| 10 | I have my camera with me so that I can take some photographs . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you should take some soap and water to your ears , ’ Miss Beard said acidly . |
| 12 | If you say , ‘ I keep thinking you might take some LSD and have a bad trip and get scrambled-egg brains and never be the same again and I really love you the way you are , ’ that 's fine because you 've confined yourself to what you know and what you feel . |
| 13 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 14 | She lowered the window by the leather tab and clicked the lip into the groove of the embrasure to hold it down so she could take some photographs ; several boys climbing over the fence on the railway banks hooted at the sight of her camera and posed , arms akimbo , pretence starlets . |
| 15 | At least she could take some comfort from the fact that Rune Christensen was also in the hunt . |
| 16 | Yes , you shall take some eggs back to your aunt , my Rhode Islands lay such beautiful brown speckled ones with yolks like marigolds . |
| 17 | what , what I wondered was if you can take some bleach down , I think there 's probably some down in the loo downstairs , and at least put some of that into , can you do that ? |
| 18 | No longer will you need to work backward : you can take some crime situation , such as the possibility that your main character has committed a murder , and from there work forwards . |
| 19 | When I go south , you can take some dogs and go east to King Edward VII Land . |
| 20 | And I handed over my day timing , now bear in mind this is all in pencil , and she looked at the schedule for May and said you 're not real busy this month , you know , you can take some time off . |
| 21 | Right , we 'll take some calls after this , starting with Humphrey from Kew , David from Pinner and Bob from Edgeware . |
| 22 | ‘ Next year we 'll take some time off and go to Italy together , ’ her mother had said . |
| 23 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 24 | Okay so a quarter of an hour and we 'll take some feedback I think the er last one is perhaps So if anybody 's got or anything else perhaps |
| 25 | It had to be done in the night , they explained , when there was nobody about and we could take some home with us providing we kept our mouths shut . |
| 26 | It would be much easier to get her identified if we could take some photographs around , to show to likely people . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If we had a full-strength team , you can rest assured we would take some beating in the First Division . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Contessa , ’ he was saying , ‘ if you will excuse us we will take some lunch . |
| 29 | As an initial pointer towards this counter-movement within respectable opinion , we can take some remarks by Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement , in an address to a conference on juvenile crime . |
| 30 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |