Sentence examples for taking a notion from inspiring English sources

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Others think that most of the work done by LFs could be done by taking a notion of surface syntax seriously, not positing hidden structure, and running very complicated semantic theories to account for the data.

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That way she wouldn't take a notion to turn me in".

Two tidy children are treed by three witches who take a notion to eat them.

yeah why?? took a notion just had to go sorry hun Eileen went back inside and rang Murt, but it went to voice mail again.

"It was the way you take a notion that you would like to see an old sweetheart," he wrote, "which is not always the kind of notion to act on".

The set began with four people draped in gold fabric topped by gold masks, staring at the crowd like Aztec statues that had taken a notion to move about.

With their enormous new ring, which goes the Patriots' one bigger by a millimeter, the Steelers have taken a notion that started out subliminal and brought it into daylight: the Super Bowl ring as personal portable trophy.

Fowler added, "Barrymore said that he halfway believed that the tribal gods, in whose behalf the pole had been erected, 'might take a notion into their whimsical noggins to wreak vengeance on the thief.' " This seems to be as close as Barrymore ever got to a public confession that he had taken the pole.

As William Ray, a 23-year-old blacksmith of the 7th Wisconsin, gloated to his diary after a hot, sloppy summer drill, "the officers couldn't make them do any better for they all worked together and when they take a notion and hang together, the officers never could handle us as they pleased".

they sell ads by the inch to companies who want to sell something to the likes of you -- time shares, Wonderbras, cotton shirts -- readers who might take a notion to spend a little of their hard-earned but otherwise disposable income on something they see advertised here.

My future/current/only husband proceeded to date every girl who worked in that restaurant, starting with Her Bounciness, before he ever took a notion to ask me out.

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