Example sentences of "i [verb] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 2 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 3 | again , I mean I maybe should n't do this but I tend to take a very relaxed attitude to these things and if somebody wants to bring a pal or if somebody that would be interested I see it as P R for the B A I E you know |
| 4 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 5 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 6 | I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tell you what , I want to take a bag of crisps , and then if I sit with him |
| 10 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 11 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 13 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 14 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 15 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 16 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 17 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 18 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 19 | The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ? |
| 20 | Would I like to take a turn round the garden ? |
| 21 | I remember one particular occasion when , on finding ‘ Cheer up Mona ’ written on the blackboard when I arrived to take a class , I went absolutely potty , threatening dire punishment on the whole class — the entire school almost — unless the culprit came forward . |
| 22 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 23 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 24 | So if we 're we 're if we get if we get past that erm er that that point of am I going to take a flier . |
| 25 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 26 | Well I remember I like to take a while I ca n't stand the most of them . |
| 27 | I remember taking a girl out once and I really did fancy her — oh , she was beautiful . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a fantastic experience , and I remember taking a photograph of Harold Abrahams at the start of the 100 metres race that he won . |
| 29 | Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one . |
| 30 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |