Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon .
2 The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view .
3 Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States .
4 For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits .
5 He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees .
6 This Report has already mentioned both the composers who have taken these opportunities with happy results for the Church , and the production of much locally written music .
7 Money also serves to bribe the officials who have to take this decision .
8 An elderly lady , a writer of crime-stories , was featured ; for years she has taken regular night walks , striding out for miles through the city of London , observant of everything around her .
9 When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug .
10 For housing purposes we 've taken large chunks out of our greenbelt , signalling that in terms of regeneration , we do n't have regeneration housing sites .
11 Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story .
12 For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state .
13 In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top .
14 There is a natural reluctance to make criminals of suppliers who have taken reasonable steps to ensure that their goods accord with modern standards .
15 The studies themselves have taken various forms , some directly addressing the issue of creativity and psychosis , others reporting results that bear indirectly on it .
16 Of the 10 patients who had taken oral contraceptives , only one developed gall stone recurrence but neither of the two patients taking hormone replacement treatment developed recurrent stones .
17 Now Wales hope he can boost their World Cup qualifying hopes against the Group Four leaders who have taken maximum points from their opening four games .
18 Friday night 's goalscorer , Chris Malkin , added : ‘ We are disappointed because in our last two matches we 've taken one point , when we 've probably deserved six .
19 The historians who have taken this line have identified Eleanor and her eldest daughter , Marie , Countess of Champagne ( 1140–98 ) , as the outstanding patrons of this dangerous movement .
20 When Charles took Corsica and Sardinia , he drove out Saracens who had taken these islands , in tum , from the East Romans .
21 That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court .
22 An " international brigade " of young environmentalists who have taken direct action against the construction work have in turn been attacked by a " valley militia " of locals who support the development .
23 Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day .
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