1.   A little voice inside her whispered that Luke had never intended his generous words to be taken literally.

2.   Jelinek took individual words as the states in his Markov model for speech recognition.

3.   Take a word of advice, Mr Watt.

4.   The business is doing very well.

5.   You can take my word for it.

6.   Zborowski took his words literally and was alarmed that Modi had sold his paintings himself.

7.   He has a reputation for being veracious, so people generally take his word for things.

8.   In a way it was flattering that they should take his word.

9.   However, he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again.