Example sentences of "always take [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always takes his time : he must get his ink horn out , his parchment smooth , his quill sharpened , and make sure his little arse is comfortable on the softest cushions my manor can provide . |
| 2 | While stressing IBM good behaviour , IBM chairman John Opel in a speech in London in May 1984 told Europeans that IBM could always take its investment elsewhere . |
| 3 | Does he always take his tankard to the loo with him ? ’ |
| 4 | But they paused a moment outside and Lizzie said quietly , ‘ Does he always take his bath with her ? ’ |
| 5 | You must always take my advice . |
| 6 | A good loading tune makes up for this , although in-game sound is limited to sparse hitting FX — oh well , you can always take your radio down to the beach ! |
| 7 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 8 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 9 | My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us . |
| 10 | For some reason Aziz always took his mop home with him . |
| 11 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 12 | Growing burrs and hooks , reaming her snaggled , sleep-starved nerves , her fretting longed for the relaxation of talking to the one person who had always taken her part : her sister . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's always taken my advice before . ’ |
| 14 | But , of course , we 've always taken our soccer and rugby pretty seriously in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 15 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 16 | The piano is now moveable and appears to have seven keys that strike a note , but I always take my tambour , and am eternally grateful to Francis and Rita for including in our training , advice on ways of accompanying movement without a piano . |
| 17 | Your editor , you know , is notoriously devious , so I always take my secretary in as witness . |
| 18 | So I always take my dinner in there . |