Example sentences of "if [pers pn] took a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |
| 2 | Yes , I own my own cab but the real mushers would have me if I took a fare . ’ |
| 3 | If I took a knock I would n't feel it , and that would make things worse . |
| 4 | See if I took a pension mortgage out it would be linked to me lumped into me current pension contract . |
| 5 | And well I du n no if I took a continuity one round to the left . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she took a couple now , she 'd feel better for the long drive home . |
| 8 | But , of course , it would be delightful if she took a fall . |
| 9 | ‘ If you took a commission ? |
| 10 | ‘ perhaps , Mr Prentice , as you 're obviously out of work , it would be better if you took a course in housekeeping . ’ |
| 11 | I. If you took a farm somewhere on the lowlands on either side of the Pennines , the way you would choose your crops and livestock would depend largely on four things : ( i ) the soils ; ( ii ) the rainfall ; ( iii ) the urban markets ; ( iv ) what your neighbours did . |
| 12 | During Biblical times , some ancients thought moonlight was dangerous for one 's eyes but a more modern belief was that if you took a child , suffering from whooping cough , outside to look at the new moon , then it would effect a cure . |
| 13 | → 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 . |
| 14 | When you look back , when you look back you see , erm , understand that after nineteen twenty six , at the local pits , if you if you took a watch , if you took a watch to work with you , so that you 're in a position to know the time , and tell the other people what the time was , you see , you were running the serious risk of losing your job . |
| 15 | When you look back , when you look back you see , erm , understand that after nineteen twenty six , at the local pits , if you if you took a watch , if you took a watch to work with you , so that you 're in a position to know the time , and tell the other people what the time was , you see , you were running the serious risk of losing your job . |
| 16 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 17 | I believe if you took a referendum today a majority would agree that television should be stopped forthwith . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mrs Lewis would be glad if you took a bit more interest in household furnishings and interior decoration . ’ |
| 20 | Now if you took a medical practice booklet they range from three hundred and ninety up to twelve hundred . |
| 21 | So if you took a six week period then you 're looking at somewhere around four and a half thousand pounds worth of income . |
| 22 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 23 | We can thus put our study on a firmer basis of observation and evidence than if we took a broader domain . |
| 24 | What if we took a radically different stance and presented a positive , invigorating reason to transcend greed — make people feel they are ‘ enough ’ without it ? ’ says Clancy . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps if we took a good running jump — ’ he began . |
| 26 | If they took a whirl at the minister , he would have a fine sight of the fun . |
| 27 | Maybe if they took a chance and played a song that was over three minutes long , the audience 's attention span would grow . ’ |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | Its leaders knew there was a serious risk of trouble if it took a mass march into Gqozo 's lair . |
| 30 | If it took a couple of weeks to trace and arrange to visit all the closest relatives of the victims of a train disaster , say , those most likely to become severely depressed might already have done so . |