Example sentences of "[vb past] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I stopped taking the chlorambucil , the lumps are beginning to return , which is just as well . |
| 2 | She stopped taking the pills . |
| 3 | Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby . |
| 4 | We stopped taking the Magnet and the Gem and the Boy 's Own Paper . |
| 5 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 6 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 7 | A CRAZED donkey nearly tore the arm off an eight-year-old boy as he stopped to take a holiday snap . |
| 8 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 9 | Rothschild and his successors tried to take a fresh look at issues too remote , politically inconvenient or otherwise ignored , and come up with clear , concise proposals for action , if possible on a single sheet of paper . |
| 10 | That gentile foster parents were liable to imbue youngsters with their own values , however hard they tried to take a neutral line , was undeniable , but the alternative , to turn away children because there were not enough Jewish homes for them to go to , was rejected out of hand by the RCM 's ruling council . |
| 11 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 12 | When we were out front earlier today , Rocket tried to take a short cut across the front garden , Candy saw her off , like a . |
| 13 | New Forum tried to take the Politburo up on its offer to talk , and again demanded legal status so that it would not constantly be accused of subversion . |
| 14 | When a high-up official tried to take the magistrate in charge off the case , fellow judges said , ‘ Enough ’ . |
| 15 | Like Loch Lomond , Slaley Hall in Northumbria and Quietwaters in Essex tried to take the high-quality , high-price route to success . |
| 16 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 17 | Rosie tried to take the hen from Artemis , but Artemis held on to her firmly . |
| 18 | When she tried to take the boxes he summoned Frederica with a touch of his old asperity , and told her to make herself useful . |
| 19 | and they tried to take the bloody ticket off me . |
| 20 | He grinned , tried to take the sting out of his words . |
| 21 | They tried to take the cowboys on at their own game . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Garscadden then considered the Scottish Enterprise and the Highlands and Islands Enterprise budgets and , because that was good news , he immediately tried to take the Lanarkshire component out of it . |
| 23 | She told the inquest how her husband tried to take the baby after a late night row . |
| 24 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 25 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 26 | He beat to take the coveted first prize in a hard-fought battle at the Sneyd Arms , Sneyd Green . |
| 27 | In 1963 Kennedy moved to take a more positive role in the struggle for civil rights . |
| 28 | ‘ Leave it , ’ Herr Nordern said as Erika moved to take the call , but , as usual , the phone was hard to resist and , pulling a face , Herr Nordern took the call himself . |
| 29 | Michael Stewart moved to take the place of Patrick Gordon Walker , Wilson 's choice as Foreign Secretary , who had twice failed to secure the necessary seat in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | He moved to take the figure to twenty . |