Example sentences of "i take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman referred to another issue in which I take a good deal of interest — women and work . |
| 2 | ( ’ Each time I take a good picture , I ask myself who can I show it to … but there are fewer people left . ’ ) |
| 3 | Sentencing , Sheriff Gordon Shiach told David Frame : ‘ I take a serious view of these offences . ’ |
| 4 | I take a political position according to my belief in the particular issue , and it never coincides in respect of more than one issue with that of any particular party . |
| 5 | You must understand , however , that I take a great interest in poor Hyde . |
| 6 | 1650 hours — I take a final walk round . |
| 7 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 8 | I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues . |
| 9 | I take a deep breath , trying to wake myself up . |
| 10 | I take a deep breath , trying to control things . |
| 11 | I take a deep breath . |
| 12 | I take a deep breath . |
| 13 | I take a deep breath and try to calm myself , to still the noisy , rusty jagged parts . |
| 14 | I take a deep breath , ‘ I said I could probably write a story about my own death . ’ |
| 15 | As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller ! |
| 16 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 17 | For the moment , suffice it to say that I take a skeptical view of the structural analyses offered . |
| 18 | I take a crude conception of compliance as a starting-point , since it is clear that , in factory or farm , money has been spent in response to the existence of water pollution regulation . |