Example sentences of "i take the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Can I take the spare one into work ?
2 May I take the right hon. Gentleman 's question seriously ?
3 I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava .
4 An' I took the bloody pill .
5 They form a national network and it is from their conference statement that I took the above quotations .
6 I took the simple biblical past …
7 I took the easy way out .
8 I took the small thing out of his hand .
9 I took the small knife from my left breast pocket and nicked my left thumb carefully .
10 Later , I took the then editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Screeton , there .
11 It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy .
12 I took the standard right turn and watched as he stopped a little way out to sea , turned , and stared at us .
13 I took the long cut home .
14 I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert .
15 But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off .
16 I took the religious name of Agatha , really my own , but if you ask the Lady Prioress , she will tell you I entered these walls as Marie Savigny . ’
17 ‘ As to the time of death , I took the internal body temperature at eight o'clock .
18 His eyes lingered a dry moment on mine , as if to make sure I took the implicit compliment ; and then , as if to limit it , he turned out the lamp .
19 I took the other half , inspecting it in a similar manner .
20 At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me .
21 I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill .
22 When we got back from Majorca , I was sent to another school for a year , and then I took the so-called eleven-plus examination .
23 I took the welcome opportunity to stand up .
24 I took the comfortable two person tent with me on a number of solo trips as its packed size is small and the weight is good at 7lb 2oz , 3.25kg .
25 After lunch in Sunderland , I took the coastal route home , hoping the notorious Hartlepool to Middlesbrough line could secure my fortune .
26 In my father 's house , I took the back room .
27 I TOOK the little cinder that was the remains of the wasp and put it into a matchbox , wrapped in an old photograph of Eric with my father .
28 I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely .
29 yes , I took the old one out and put it in
30 I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again .
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