Example sentences of "[vb mod] to take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always does — without much faith in what she is doing , like those anti-fascist chores she used to take on until recently ( I should n't talk about that really ) . |
| 2 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 3 | They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward . |
| 4 | I think power gives people attraction — Henry Kissinger , who was not the most handsome man in the world , became absolutely overwhelmingly attractive to women when he became dominant , and he used to take out Hollywood starlets . |
| 5 | The buses used to start from their to Hampton , and there used to be a place where they would leave newspapers and they put , put a er box there by that and people used to take out newspaper and put the money into the box and er , you ca n't dream of that sort of thing now . |
| 6 | I used to take about , around about four , four to five gallons , which er , I could er , like erm , carry it down there like to them , you know and er , and then you got out Cos in the ori original days , when I first started as a kid with him , we used to have to take it out morning and night , people , mostly the factory owners and we , we had er , had er having twice a day . |
| 7 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 8 | The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf . |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder if I ought to take up weight-lifting . ’ |