Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 2 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 3 | He had had a successful academic career at Cambridge University , where he had taken successive degrees leading up to his PhD . |
| 4 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 5 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 6 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 7 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 8 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 9 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 10 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 11 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 12 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 13 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 14 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 16 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 17 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 18 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 19 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 20 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 21 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 22 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 23 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 24 | It is not surprising that there is widespread protest against the sentence of two months ' imprisonment … passed on the Liverpool Constable who admitted that he had taken four oranges , worth threepence , from a shed in the West Canada Dock … pilfering by the Police is a different matter from the same offence committed by a street urchin . |
| 25 | Vaguely he wished that he had taken more interest in old science . |
| 26 | ’ Carco asked if he could buy a painting , ‘ The Standing Nude ’ , and Zbo was so overcome with emotion because Carco appreciated Modigliani that he refused to take any money for it . |
| 27 | Once he had taken that view he abdicated , albeit unconsciously , his responsibility to rule on the submissions made . |
| 28 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 29 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 30 | As ye know , most doctors in the islands get six months ' leave every three years , and I volunteered to take one man 's place soon after I had qualified . |