Example sentences of "[pron] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it be nasty weather , I take a turn in the chocolate-hause : where , as you walk , madam , you have the prettiest prospect in the world ; you have lookingglasses all round you . |
| 2 | I take a sip of beer , of lager . |
| 3 | I take a taxi since my next flight leaves in an hour . |
| 4 | I take a camera and sit on the edge of the water . |
| 5 | I take a couple out and wind them round my finger . |
| 6 | 1650 hours — I take a final walk round . |
| 7 | After breakfast I take a stroll around the base checking that all the daily administrative tasks have been completed . |
| 8 | However , I take a chance that all is well with Jabrut ( 2.15 ) , who has his first outing since landing a gamble in novice company here last November . |
| 9 | However , I take a chance that all is well with Jabrut ( 2.15 ) , who has his first outing since landing a gamble in novice company here last November . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 12 | ( ’ Each time I take a good picture , I ask myself who can I show it to … but there are fewer people left . ’ ) |
| 13 | As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller ! |
| 14 | I take a few steps then , remembering my hold-all , push my way back to it like a drowning man . |
| 15 | I take a size 13 and have to start searching for my next shoes immediately after breaking in a pair of new ones . |
| 16 | Course members will sleep in a tent while I take a suite at the Inverlochy Castle Hotel , and at the end of the week everyone gets an official hand-written certificate to say they can put on gaiters without |
| 17 | At least when I take a wife it 'll satisfy me . |
| 18 | Very often , when I take a walk along the river in the close season and see a shoal of chub sliding in and out of the streamer weed , or merely lying near to the surface , ready to suck in a floating insect , I imagine I have a rod with me and I want to catch one of those chub . |
| 19 | Then I take a fairly full swing ( photo 3 ) , but making sure that my feet are securely planted in the sand ( photo 4 ) . |
| 20 | A friend and I take a stall at an indoor market once a week . |
| 21 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |
| 22 | Mind if I take a look ? ’ |
| 23 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I take a boom box in the loo with me . |
| 26 | Will you be all right with him while I take a better look at the other bloke ? ’ |
| 27 | I take a taxi to Belcourt , the area where Albert Camus grew up . |
| 28 | I take a hotel on the rue Larbi Ben M'Hidi , formerly the rue d'Arzew where Camus lived for a while , a street of arcades and white buildings with yellow ornamentation . |
| 29 | On my next-to-last day I take a taxi to the Roman ruins at Tipasa , 50 miles along the coast from Algiers . |
| 30 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |