Example sentences of "[pers pn] want to take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 2 | You 're er for the moment you 're not committed to a party , you 've just got to take an individual decision and I know Maastricht is very complicated but there 's a lot of gut feeling as well as precise knowledge about these things , so I want to take a vote . |
| 3 | Tell you what , I want to take a bag of crisps , and then if I sit with him |
| 4 | I wanted to take a laser gun and kill all those monsters . |
| 5 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 6 | Why , do you want to take a look ? ’ |
| 7 | Oh do you want to take a pound then cos I have n't got any drink in . |
| 8 | Hey ; you want to take a stroll round the battlements ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If you want to take a detour from polite conversation then let me ask you this : despite all that money and all those fancy clothes and wild parties , you 're not very happy , are you ? ’ |
| 10 | Otherwise just nod or shake your head , unless you want to take a point further . |
| 11 | ‘ You wants to take a look ? ’ |
| 12 | No , no , if you go , if you went on a philosophy you wanted to take a degree in English and philosophy you do n't know any more o than the next person about |
| 13 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 14 | If you had 700 quid in your pocket and you wanted to take a flyer , you would n't spend it on a band comprising ex-members of Clock DVA , would you ? |
| 15 | Before the winter , they wanted to take a lot of food south , and leave it in depots . |
| 16 | Yesterday evening he wanted to take a photograph of me . |
| 17 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |