Example sentences of "she take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lies beside its mother occasionally disengaging from the teat with creamy milk dribbling from the side of its mouth , while she takes a rest and perhaps shifts on the sand to offer her other teat . |
| 2 | In the video ‘ Perfect X ’ K Dieroff balances precariously between ideals of beauty and self-mutilation as she takes a knife to her nose accompanied by a barrage of adjectives distilled from women 's magazines . |
| 3 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 4 | She takes a second hit , hauls a bullet of dope down into her lungs and continues . |
| 5 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 6 | Marie Murphy then provides a musical interlude with her essay ‘ Down To The Woods ’ , in which she takes a look at the career of that great Ulster songwriter , the late Jimmy Kennedy . |
| 7 | She takes a pill anyway . ) |
| 8 | Oh yes they are they 're nice presents and erm she said she is is sort of in charge of his suits and he can only wear a suit she takes a suit to the cleaners every three weeks . |
| 9 | Here , in words and pictures , she takes a journey across the great emptiness of the Nullarbor Plain . |
| 10 | Is n't this is an extraordinary situation , n here is a nurse , a a you know a a kind caring woman , she takes a drug and yet she must be of all people the one person to say , I 'm having a side effect . |
| 11 | She takes a pack of cigarettes and offers him one . |
| 12 | But when she takes a step towards me I find I 've crossed the kitchen to meet her . |
| 13 | She 's not up to much , is she , if she takes a bairn like that 'un with her when she 's on the make ? ’ |
| 14 | Her murder-solving cook Darina Lisle discovers more intrigue when she takes a job at a dying country house hotel that turns out to be a hotbed of sex and mystery . |
| 15 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 16 | In her place she could n't have stood that for one moment , but neither could she take a man from his wife . |
| 17 | I mean , If she 'd covered her disappearance so well , why should she take a risk like that ? ’ |
| 18 | As soon as she thought we were out of sight she reached under her apron and produced a small bottle from which , tipping back her head , she took a swig . |
| 19 | Or perhaps she took a swig of sherry . |
| 20 | She took a grip on herself , physically pushed back the dark , claustrophobic horror at the point of drowning . |
| 21 | She took a grip on herself , thrusting away her stupid weepiness . |
| 22 | She took a grip on herself . |
| 23 | One plank was heaved off and she took a grip on another . |
| 24 | Reluctantly she got up and her teeth chattered as she took a dressing gown from a hook behind the bedroom door . |
| 25 | She took a pen from one pocket of her purloined white coat , flipped to a new page on the clipboard , and wrote ‘ BLOODY HELL ! ’ on a report form . |
| 26 | ‘ We do a lot of restoration work , and when she went back home on a visit she took a brochure which showed the sort of stuff we do . |
| 27 | Needing a moment 's breathing-space , she took a side-step or two away , and had a brief inner tussle where she came close to telling him that Travis was not her boyfriend , and had never been her boyfriend . |
| 28 | She took a run-up , carved quite a beautiful arc against the sky and promptly vanished , with a shoosh , into very long , dry grass . |
| 29 | She took a sip of her coffee , then continued : ‘ I think I 'm going to get over him , you know . ’ |
| 30 | She took a sip of wine , sweet and strong . |