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 .
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