Example sentences of "[coord] taken a " in BNC.

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1 When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it .
2 A school leaver in 1976 , he had never owned a camera or taken a picture .
3 Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ?
4 Sealed units must have destroyed at lot of the or taken a chunk out of the market .
5 His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower .
6 Mr Healey had said he was himself knackered that morning , having returned the previous day , very late , from a seminar in Florence , and taken a dose of the cough mixture Benylin to get to sleep , which he found worked better than Mogadon .
7 Now Mrs Thatcher had originally gone to Peking just after the Falklands war , full of vim , and taken a hard line .
8 Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years .
9 ‘ We have tried to examine our down-side and taken a very prudent view of the problems we might get in the future , ’ he said .
10 What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers .
11 He gave evidence as to how he and other officers had approached Drew on 22 July and taken a statement .
12 He put the flask on her lap to free both his hands for the cleaning , and before she knew it , she had raised the bottle to her lips and taken a sip .
13 Having thought through some or all of these questions and taken a hard look at the future you next need to analyse the job itself .
14 Having ‘ given his best ’ to the centre for four years and taken a major role in setting it up , he obviously felt ‘ very disappointed ’ he would n't be part of its new phase .
15 She must 've sneaked into the pantry one day when nobody was looking and taken a bite out of that jelly .
16 The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’
17 They had ignored the seriousness of the news bulletins that night and taken a trip down the Mersey on the Royal Iris to celebrate the finishing of their bedroom , though Mr Chamberlain had told them next day that they were at war with Germany .
18 Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort .
19 Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs .
20 You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware .
21 The moment when Pascoe had sat down and taken a sip of the wine !
22 Linley had left the restaurant at 3 p.m. and taken a taxi to Fleet Street , a journey of no more than ten minutes even on a busy Friday afternoon .
23 " And taken a knife to them , " Graham said , looking down at Slater 's legs and shrugging his arm free of the light grip which held it .
24 In 1956 he had quit the Voice full-time , settled into writing his weekly column , ‘ The Village Square ’ for the paper , and taken a job with the New York Times travel section .
25 Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie 's flat .
26 This would take place in view of the grandstands at 5.35 , after the players had checked their scores , signed their cards and taken a little time to compose themselves .
27 The girl had grinned and taken a gulp of iced tea .
28 And taken a paracetamol overdose .
29 Detective Constable David Hemes told the inquest that Mr Ryder had left his home and gone to his chemist 's shop in Old Town Lane , Formby , and taken a bottle of barbiturates .
30 Wilkinson has battled hard and taken a lot of knocks this season .
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