Example sentences of "and he [vb mod] [adv] take " in BNC.

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1 Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning .
2 And he would mostly take very good care not to be found out .
3 By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult .
4 He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again .
5 Write the cheque out and he 'd just take it in .
6 I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the .
7 But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called .
8 But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called .
9 A scientist may have an effect on behaviour in the act of observing or analysing it , and he must certainly take this effect into account .
10 Mr Smythe 's own 23-year-old son , Andrew , has worked for French confectioner fairly new to Britain the Maison Blanc in Oxford and he will soon take the reins of the family company , his training complete .
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