Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] taken the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 8 | ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’ |
| 9 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’ |
| 11 | Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |
| 14 | Shares of Japanese banks , which have taken the worst beating in the plunge in share prices , rebounded strongly , along with the rest of the market . |
| 15 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 16 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |
| 17 | But in his absence no-one was capable of providing it and that must be hugely worrying for Wilkinson , who has taken the biggest gamble of his successful career by selling the striker . |
| 18 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 19 | But yes , did you , should you , you have taken the sixty P last week ? |
| 20 | If you 've taken the last exercise seriously , you 'll be able to list some changes you 'd like to make : Go on — have a go ! |
| 21 | You 've taken the full course at the Academy of Marksmanship . |
| 22 | SERAFIN : You 've taken the inverted commas off ? |
| 23 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 24 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 25 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 26 | There was not a doubt in his mind as to where she had taken the fifth picture on the film . |
| 27 | In her agitation she had taken the longer route on to the Quay de Cologny . |
| 28 | Mr Clare was telling his son about the new d'Urberville family who had taken the ancient name and lived near Trantridge . |
| 29 | Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test |
| 30 | She compared the results of students who had taken the regular lecture course with those of students using the computer-based programme and found no statistical difference in the amount of learning . |