Example sentences of "[verb] taken a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't look the kind of guy who could have taken a long prison sentence . |
| 2 | The Captain had taken a small leather pouch from an inner pocket , pulled open the drawstring , extracted a shilling and was holding it out . |
| 3 | TRANMERE substitutes John Kenworthy and Ian Muir earned the points after Notts County had taken a 46th minute lead . |
| 4 | And they looked on course when goals from Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush put them in front after the RCS had taken a 16th minute lead through Pavel Kuka . |
| 5 | An applicant for a job with a finance company claimed he had taken a lengthy career break which turned out to be a prison term for robbery . |
| 6 | One image sticks in my mind from Brands Hatch that year , a race at which Ronnie , who was then lying just about level with Mario , had taken a notable pole position . |
| 7 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 8 | Most teachers are graduates who have taken a one-year Postgraduate Certificate of Education course . |
| 9 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |