Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] take " in BNC.
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1 | when someone tried to take my hand . |
2 | and erm I , I fainted when someone tried to take blood from me |
3 | ROGER STOTT , one of Labour 's Northern Ireland spokesmen , was sipping a nightcap in a Belfast hotel recently and listening with genuine appreciation to a guitarist , when someone started taking flashlight snaps . |
4 | As Mappin says , ‘ … someone had to take tennis to the public … ’ |
5 | Defries had decided that someone had to take charge . |
6 | Anyway , someone had to take his place . |
7 | Someone had take the trouble to remove all the children 's sweet papers from the ashtray , and clean underneath the mats as well . |
8 | He wondered whether the sad white victim was still lying in the sodden grass by the lake , or whether someone had taken pity and buried it . |
9 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
10 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
11 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
12 | A glance inside showed that someone had taken trouble , and there was a really friendly feeling about the place . |
13 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
14 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
15 | Someone had taken it , someone , presumably , who knew where to find it . |
16 | ‘ Someone had taken it to a French jeweller after the war and tried to sell it . |
17 | ‘ Someone had taken it by morning . ’ |
18 | Perhaps someone had taken out the bulb . |
19 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
20 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
21 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
22 | And he referred quite clearly to the notes someone had taken , information my mother must have given them . |
23 | I thought it was a damn silly place to park if someone wanted to take a leak in the bushes . |
24 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
25 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
26 | There were a number of excellent textbooks on the subject but nobody had taken the trouble to present scientific animal-watching to a general audience . |
27 | After two weeks nobody had taken any . |
28 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
29 | ‘ Somebody had to take a stand . |
30 | Her eyebrows rose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place . |