Example sentences of "[pers pn] have taken [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination . |
| 2 | We 'd taken the swiftly accelerating Spirit away from the homespun drag races of Woodward Avenue , hoping Chrysler 's hype on for the R/T was well founded . |
| 3 | So what I 've tried to show diagrammatically is that , we start ninety four , ninety five with plans in place , shown by the vertical dotted line on the graph , a number of those will die or leave the system for other reasons during the year , and we 've taken a fairly optimistic view I would say , erm , optimistic in the financial sense , that a significant number of those will leave the system during the year . |
| 4 | As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one . |
| 5 | So I think we 've taken a more enlightened attitude in that sense . |
| 6 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |
| 7 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 8 | There are also some that are actually innocuous but are seldom eaten for they have taken a rather complicated gamble by copying the colours of poisonous caterpillars to delude aggressors into giving them as wide a berth as the creatures they mimic . |
| 9 | Now they have taken a very professional attitude to the game . |
| 10 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |