Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] taken a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 2 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
| 3 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 4 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
| 5 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 6 | It was a distinct , physical feeling of sick panic , as if she had taken a step — and there was nothing there . |
| 7 | Things happen , he thought , and lay on the bed listening , but she had taken a magazine in with her and he fell asleep waiting . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 9 | But I have a gem of a nun who 's a wizard with a needle , and after she 'd taken a tuck in the waist and put two inches on the hem , they looked almost tailor-made . ’ |
| 10 | He wondered whether she had taken a lover during the last five years . |