Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] take a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House .
2 Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse .
3 One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed .
4 I feel only that we have taken a wrong direction somewhere , and are blindly stumbling on because our leaders blindfold us .
5 Many women find , over a period of time , that they like to take a regular supplement of evening primrose oil .
6 The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life .
7 There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line .
8 Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections .
9 Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned .
10 After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne .
11 I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation .
12 It was not until 1881 that he decided to take a medical degree ; his work up to that time had been in the physiological laboratory under Brücke , where , for six years , he had studied the central nervous system .
13 Although his title , The Rural Muse : Studies in the Peasant Poetry of England ( 1954 ) , implies that he has taken a positive view , he is hardpressed at times to defend the value of the peasant poet :
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