Example sentences of "[verb] taken [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major has taken plenty of decisions — Norman Lamont 's budget was full of bold strokes . |
| 2 | Our opener this year has been a runaway success in the States where the box office success of this relatively low budget film has taken everyone by surprise . |
| 3 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 4 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 5 | Pam Dixon 's here , the bearded wonder has taken himself off for the weekend |
| 6 | Her son has taken her up in his hang-glider ( can you carry two on a hang-glider ? ) , and she recalls her life and loves as she sails over the old family farm and the nearby manganese factory where it all happened . |
| 7 | It has taken her just 24 months to learn the rules . |
| 8 | Dr Halden is married to my daughter and has taken her on an extended tour of the Continent . ’ |
| 9 | The city council , responsible for housing people with Aids , has taken her off the streets and put her in a room in a single-occupancy hotel . |
| 10 | I gather your nursemaid has taken her off to her own home today . ’ |
| 11 | Her fate has taken her on a different journey , a route where the monarchy is secondary to her true vocation . |
| 12 | A : The Good Lord , in his wisdom , has taken her away from us . |
| 13 | ‘ My daughter 's sixteen , and today my ex-husband has taken her and my mother to a pantomime . ’ |
| 14 | So Rose Taillé , on the farm here , has taken her . |
| 15 | Marjorie 's hobby has taken her all over Scotland and abroad . |
| 16 | ‘ I have never seen or heard since my knowledge of things , ’ wrote a British admiral in 1745 , ‘ that one of our ships alone , singly opposed to one of the enemy 's of equal force , has taken her , and I have been in almost every action and skirmish since the year 1718 , and yet we are daily boasting of the prowess of our Fleet . ’ |
| 17 | She joined AIB Bank in Bankcentre branch in October 1980 and her career since then has taken her to 100 Grafton St. , 1985–90 and Mary Street from then until her transfer to Cabra in July 1992 . |
| 18 | Alain has taken her back by car . |
| 19 | Her work has taken her all over the world . |
| 20 | Since then her work with the band has taken her on a Scottish tour which included the Edinburgh Folk Festival , and she also performs with the four other ladies who make up Belfast 's first close-harmony vocal group ‘ Cuigear Ban ’ . |
| 21 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 22 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 23 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 24 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 25 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 26 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 27 | It has taken me fifty lifts to reach Pinjarra ; a name on the map you do not notice until fate holds you there . |
| 28 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 29 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |
| 30 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |