Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] taken [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say three-thirty , after I 've taken my customary nap . |
| 2 | She was no mother to him because she 'd taken his real mother 's place . |
| 3 | But you 're taking , you 're n you 're not immediately challenging the system but you 've taken their armed forces away |
| 4 | For there were many in that land who had taken their magical researches too far and into whose souls darkness entered . |
| 5 | Rock became aware that the thrilling , magical father , who had taken his young son backstage , on the road , drinking , water-skiiing , was gradually becoming a resentful tyrant . |
| 6 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 7 | He has taken his early holiday , incidentally , to be on hand at the end of the season for the merry-go-round in football employment which usually comes in the summer . |
| 8 | It had taken her precious time to track down the people Lori had stayed with , only to discover , when she arrived , that Lori had flown off to Caracas . |
| 9 | It had taken their combined savings to make the down payment on a house in overcrowded Tollemarche and Isobel had declared that she could manage without a car . |
| 10 | Then his hands were cupping her face and before she could argue or gather her wits , he had taken her startled mouth with his own . |
| 11 | He felt he had taken his only child like a lamb to the slaughter . |
| 12 | About the time he had taken his reluctant swim . |