Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] taken [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 3 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 4 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 5 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 6 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 7 | But , you see , I had taken a violent dislike to the short man . |
| 8 | It was the first time I had taken a close look at him . |
| 9 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 10 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 11 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 12 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , Charles , I 've taken a good look at your latest victim . |
| 14 | ‘ After I 've taken a few pictures . |
| 15 | Yeah erm w what I 've done , I 've measured I 've taken an exact measurement , |
| 16 | ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’ |
| 17 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’ |
| 19 | Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always . |
| 20 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 21 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 22 | She said , ‘ I have taken a great risk in coming to see you tonight . ’ |
| 23 | I have taken a little time to sketch the history of paragraph 16.5 of Code C in order to show that it is not directly linked to the ancient and deep-rooted privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 24 | I have taken a long look at local government finance . |
| 25 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 26 | Therefore I have taken the different topics in the order that my sources thought appropriate and provided references to at least some of the specific instances of those problems that Howard gave in his text . |
| 27 | In the course of this chapter I have taken an historical perspective upon the nature of religious belief , looking in particular at writers from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries . |
| 28 | A matter which has taken a great deal of time was the proposal before ITAC in relation to future arrangements for the Electronic Distribution of the Crown Court List . |
| 29 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 30 | PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’ |