Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 3 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 4 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 5 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 6 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 9 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 10 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 11 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 12 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 13 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 14 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
| 15 | She paused to take another sip of wine , conscious of Rune 's unremitting interest in her recital . |
| 16 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 19 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 20 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 21 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 22 | Suppose also that , on another day , you had taken some shots of the unloading of a catch at the same location . |
| 23 | ‘ We tried to take Grand Met to a tribunal but they refused . |
| 24 | The Swiss played us off the field in both our European ties a year ago , yet we managed to take three points from them . |
| 25 | Owing to the thick fog all day long , we had to take extra precautions on the road parts of the walk . |
| 26 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 29 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 30 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |