Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] taken [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoughtlessly , grandly , I had then taken a fallen branch and lopped the top leaves off some innocent plant like a child . |
| 2 | I 've already taken a considerable risk by telling you this much . |
| 3 | Erm , there 's many suggestions I 've got here , where I 've just taken the necessary action in view of the procedures and I do n't feel that it 's necessary for us to discuss it , if you 're happy with that . |
| 4 | It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts . |
| 5 | I 've never taken the easy way out , I 'll have you know . |
| 6 | I have just taken a long , stiff drink . |
| 7 | I am not pregnant , I have not taken a hallucinatory drug , and I have never killed anyone . |
| 8 | I have never taken the Financial Times , finding it dull , badly written and vulgarly obsessed with money . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 10 | She had even taken a small part at a provincial theatre until pregnancy again intervened , and had found that she was not forgotten , that Dinah Asshe could become Dinah Arkwright and be the same woman . |
| 11 | In the summer of 1921 she moved permanently to Ireland , in which country 's affairs she had always taken a keen interest . |
| 12 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 13 | We have just taken a quick overall look at the situation , one that I hope will enable the reader to form a clear picture of the scope of the French nuclear programme and the unique way in which we implemented it . |
| 14 | They 've always taken a special interest in Sefton because of the bomb blast . |
| 15 | In recent years , after an earlier period of reaction , most of the leading German theologians have been post-Barthian in the sense that while they have departed from him in various ways , they have nevertheless taken a basic orientation from him . |
| 16 | In that they have not taken the correct figures . |
| 17 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 18 | What we can say is that where pollution control has been attempted it has usually taken a crude and simple form . |
| 19 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 20 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 21 | It had obviously taken the wrong channel and become wedged on a rising shelf of rock strata which traversed the trough about fifty yards before it reached the lake surrounding the breakwater . |
| 22 | He had also taken a new Japanese product called Musachi , to replace the proteins lost through training and competitions — after getting the approval of team doctor Malcolm Brown . |
| 23 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 24 | He had already taken a major decision : he would stay in Vienna . |
| 25 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 26 | He had always taken a strong interest in his students but , compared with Camberwell and Central , the College , having more pretensions , had a social side that created greater togetherness . |
| 27 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |