Example sentences of "[vb past] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A CRAZED donkey nearly tore the arm off an eight-year-old boy as he stopped to take a holiday snap . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 7 | When we were out front earlier today , Rocket tried to take a short cut across the front garden , Candy saw her off , like a . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1963 Kennedy moved to take a more positive role in the struggle for civil rights . |
| 10 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 11 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 12 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 13 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 14 | It was n't until they were er sort of six or seven years old that er you 'd , you 'd took a part time job . |
| 15 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 16 | He 'd taken a full seven ounces at ten , and in just ten minutes on each breast too . |
| 17 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 19 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |
| 20 | He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way . |
| 21 | But I have a gem of a nun who 's a wizard with a needle , and after she 'd taken a tuck in the waist and put two inches on the hem , they looked almost tailor-made . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd taken a cordon bleu cookery course , she told me . |
| 23 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 24 | We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . |
| 25 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 26 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 27 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 28 | Once , she 'd taken a hammer to the headlamp of his motorcycle . |
| 29 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 30 | We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . |