Example sentences of "taken [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had this differentiation never taken place the result would be something inconceivably horrible , an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all . |
| 2 | It does nothing to reduce the damage because by the time the sucking has taken place the poison is already busily circulating through the victim 's body . |
| 3 | As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today . |
| 4 | And when she had woken and eaten everything the femme de menage had left for lunch plus some extra eggs and some ham , she was no longer certain what had taken place the night before . |
| 5 | On 20 May 5 Corps had reported to Eighth Army on the meeting which had taken place the previous evening between Brig Low and Col Ivanovitch . |
| 6 | But since no one had told me about what had taken place the night before , I had no idea of what advice they would give . |
| 7 | The main drawback to this officer/ N.C.O./soldier ratio was that if a party was killed or taken prisoner the enemy scored a success well out of proportion to the numbers involved . ’ |