Example sentences of "[was/were] take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were took I would talk whatever |
| 2 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 3 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 4 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 5 | At one point Eva turned and gesticulated towards me , as if she were taking him to task for something he 'd done to me . |
| 6 | ‘ Looking back , the cracks were really showing when the religious thing began to get obsessional and paranoid , and the weird hangers-on were taking him over . |
| 7 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
| 8 | But it was true ; it was only a sign of their stupidity or their fear ? — that they were taking him so seriously . |
| 9 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 10 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 11 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 13 | By that time , their wives had come out of the crowd and got hold of them , and were taking them away . |
| 14 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 16 | Still clapping , I sat down and looked to see how his team-mates were taking it . |
| 17 | In the old days , before the Leader , thought Davide , the law swelled up through chronic feuding and the only respite came in the prelude to the great feast days , when families had no more money to pay lawyers ' services because the priests were taking it instead . |
| 18 | The men of the party were discussing the situation and it was plain that , unlike Dora , they were taking it seriously . |
| 19 | ‘ They were taking us out for meals . |
| 20 | Like when my mother was a kid in the 1930's they did n't used to use anaesthesia for taking out your first set of teeth if they were to take them out , up in the round Newcastle . |
| 21 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 22 | He told her his instructions were to take her wherever she wanted to go , but nothing else . |
| 23 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 24 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 25 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 26 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 27 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 28 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 29 | The worst he could do was take her back to Brides Haven . |
| 30 | Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright . |