Example sentences of "[vb infin] taken [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral . |
| 2 | He may have taken pity on her and bought her a drink , at the same time buying a little companionship for himself , easing the ache of his loneliness . |
| 3 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 4 | God , she must have taken leave of her senses . |
| 5 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 8 | The river also provided a tremendous variety of fish and certainly the Millers would have taken advantage of this from the Garden frontage . |
| 9 | Those who could read may have taken advantage of some of the ideas of a local Elizabethan agricultural writer , Leonard Mascall of Plumpton , who wrote three textbooks on the arts of husbandry ; most farmers probably continued much as their forbears had done , producing a growing farming surplus more by accident than by conscious design . |
| 10 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 11 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 12 | Necessarily , as my hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) is my parliamentary private secretary , he will have taken advantage of the opportunity of briefing . |
| 13 | He could have taken advantage . |
| 14 | It froze again that night and everybody guessed that by morning his twisted icy body with its pathetic malformation was lying at the bottom of some gulley , where he would have taken cover from the snow and the wind . |
| 15 | Raasay has an atmosphere of independence : had the Macleods ever declared a Republic of Raasay , the place feels as if the idea might have taken hold . |
| 16 | They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up . |
| 17 | Erm Mr introduced the the the the the prospect that erm if they 'd have taken migration over the last three years , it would have been a much reduced figure . |
| 18 | point , okay that was a bit of wide ball but I might have taken offence at that . |
| 19 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 20 | There is a fortune on offer for the side that go into the European Cup 's mini-league , the build-up has been intense and not many of the players will have taken part in a bigger or more crucial event . |
| 21 | They should never have taken part in something so unnatural . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you should n't have taken part . ’ |
| 23 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |
| 24 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |
| 25 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |
| 26 | But even if Kirsty had n't insisted , she would have taken part anyway . |
| 27 | Police believe four men may have taken part in the grudge attack though they have been told there may have been as many as 10 . |
| 28 | All this must have taken shape before there were any houses on the scene . |
| 29 | By July the long-term plan for the GNF will have taken shape in response to the wishes of the people who live in it . |
| 30 | In this they might have taken heed of the Reich 's experience , but instead they went ahead and repeated that experience in miniature . |