Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do take a paid job , bear in mind that although you can earn up to a certain amount per week without affecting your state pension your wages will also be subject to income tax . |
| 2 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 3 | She does take a good photograph . |
| 4 | In fact I 've known people to go right in , so it , it , it 's not a simple job , you know , and they do take a great deal of risk with this , and I do , I mean it 's much more serious than I think than the government find , it should really work hard to try , to try to find something else . |
| 5 | There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line . |
| 6 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 7 | It does take a long while does n't it ? |
| 8 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 9 | There 's no need to be paranoid but sometimes it does take a conscious effort to be aware of what is going on around you . |