Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] a step " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did take a step back and look at myself . |
| 2 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 3 | But if , instead of jumping you walked , one step at a time , and were given one small coin as a reward every time you happened to take a step in the right direction , you would reach the scorpion in a very short time . |
| 4 | You wo n't do yourself any favours by getting worked up before you 've run a step . |
| 5 | She had advanced a step further towards him until now they were standing almost breast to breast . |
| 6 | It was a distinct , physical feeling of sick panic , as if she had taken a step — and there was nothing there . |
| 7 | The exercises taught me that when things go wrong you need to take a step back and think things through before acting . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We have gone a step further , even starting some nests off by taping on twigs and other suitable material to the boxes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We have taken a step backward , ’ Ryan said — and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November . |
| 10 | Mr Ward said : ‘ Something has to be done here as we have taken a step backwards . |
| 11 | That having taken this momentous decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we have taken a step of the most important step towards economic monetary union from which there can be no turning back . |
| 12 | This book argues that we need to take a step towards a sociology of the global system . |
| 13 | At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further . |
| 14 | Sec. knows that he has made a step towards a quorum on the next occasion . |
| 15 | Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is . |
| 16 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 17 | He had taken a step towards her . |
| 18 | In a moment the paper was back in its folder , and he had taken a step away from her . |
| 19 | The sharpened exhibitionism of Stavrogin 's wanting everybody to look at him will not have helped Dostoevsky with Katkov , but it does mark a step away from Crime and Punishment and closer to Notes from Underground . |