Example sentences of "[to-vb] taken [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The girl seems to have taken leave of her senses — ’ |
| 2 | But frequently they appear to have taken leave of their senses when it comes to choosing the right sort of women . |
| 3 | Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share 's rapid progress , selling his 2 per cent stake . |
| 4 | Khartoum 's offensive is thought by observers to have taken advantage of a rebel rift last August over alleged human rights abuses . |
| 5 | Of the latter , the Cirl Bunting does not appear to have taken advantage of the increasing scrub , possibly because much of it is on north-facing slopes , and it has now declined in numbers . |
| 6 | But Swainson does not seem to have taken advantage of the ease and freedom which the new technique could afford . |
| 7 | She appeared not to have taken offence . |
| 8 | In August , Lyell had refused to do so , but Mr Greene says that there is new evidence to suggest that the Commission did not exercise its duties correctly ; The Commissioners seem not to have taken expert advice , as they were bound to do , on the importance of the paintings to the collection , but relied merely on the statements supplied by the College itself . |
| 9 | At the surrender of Bergerac in August 1345 , for instance , Lancaster is said to have taken loot worth 52,000 marks , which he subsequently spent on his palace of the Savoy in London . |
| 10 | Another attack in which Nofomela claimed to have taken part was in Swaziland in 1983 , when the ‘ death squad ’ crossed the border to ‘ hit ’ a house occupied by African National Congress cadres with grenades and small arms . |
| 11 | This latest coup was attempted not by officers anxious to vindicate the army 's honour , but by disgruntled sergeants and corporals , most of them too young to have taken part in the dirty war . |
| 12 | ‘ I was really close to tears at the end , ’ said the Cambridge cox , at 38 the oldest person to have taken part in the race . |
| 13 | Although Australia remain one of the few countries to have taken part in every Summer Olympiad ( Greece , Switzerland and Great Britain are the others ) , they did not bring a cricket team to Paris . |
| 14 | These drawings were originally prepared on the assumption that the Tussaud carriage was built in 1811 in preparation for the Russian campaign of 1812 in which it was reputed ( erroneously ) to have taken part . |
| 15 | A republic-wide vote was held on 30 March 1991 in which 90.3 per cent of the population were reported to have taken part , 98.9 per cent of whom expressed support for the restoration of Georgian independence ; following this , on 9 April , the Georgian parliament adopted a further resolution proclaiming the republic a fully independent state ( the act , for the moment , had little practical significance ) . |
| 16 | About 1,500 rebels were thought to have taken part in the assault which was carried out in the face of sustained bombing from the Air Force . |
| 17 | The ULIMO force was reported to have taken part in fighting in recent months to repel Taylor 's invading forces from Sierra Leone . |
| 18 | Nineteen to twenty cardinals appear to have taken part in the election of Lothar . |
| 19 | The following squadrons are known to have taken part in this raid , 7 , 15 , 35 , 75 , 101 , 103 , 115 , 156 , 166 , 460 and 622 , and if anyone who flew on this operation with any of the listed squadrons have any details of the raid , I would like to hear from them . |
| 20 | Andrew Livingstone and Jason Hardy were alleged to have taken part in the near-riot on Brambles Farm estate only days after the Meadow Well revolt on Tyneside , the jury heard . |
| 21 | This is another opportunity for someone else , ’ remarked the player who is the only one to have taken part in all of Scotland 's matches this season . |
| 22 | Margaret 's big green eyes seemed to have taken possession of the whole of her face . |
| 23 | They are alleged to have taken cannabis at two end-of-term parties outside the school . |
| 24 | Andrew Saxton and his colleague Andrew Davies faced a life ban after being found to have taken Clenbuterol while training for the games . |
| 25 | Danes Nagy , silver medallist in the event for partially-sighted competitors in Barcelona , was found to have taken metanodianone , an anabolic steroid . |
| 26 | Tracy Island is about as easy to locate as Atlantis and all the models except Lady Penelope 's pink Rolls seem to have taken flight . |
| 27 | Bristol City 1 Middlesbrough 1ANDREW COLE , on loan from Arsenal , saved Bristol City last night by equalising in the 66th minute against Middlesbrough after the visitors seemed to have taken command in the first half . |
| 28 | Mr Major told the commons that the recovery does seem to have taken root . |
| 29 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 30 | One particular factor to be taken into account is the country in which incorporation is deemed to have taken place ; the criteria for this will vary from state to state , so care must be taken over this issue . |