Example sentences of "[noun prp] had take [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 2 | On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused . |
| 3 | Rehearsals started on 27 July , and Martin Browne had taken the precaution of advising the cast not to ask the author to elucidate any of the dialogue ; one actress disregarded the advice and asked Eliot what one of her lines meant . |
| 4 | The court heard that Stephen had taken an overdose of paracetamol tablets 12 months earlier . |
| 5 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |
| 6 | Since 1983 the United Kingdom had taken a series of measures to tackle the problem of quota hopping . |
| 7 | Beating Oldham 1–0 on 30 August had taken a bit of heat off Wilkinson , but another away defeat could well have led to calls for his resignation . |
| 8 | By the 1880s the Rothschilds had taken the Vale of Aylesbury by storm . |
| 9 | Carella had taken the number of the taxi and we discovered that it had dropped the suspect outside the San Gallicano hospital in Trastevere . |
| 10 | With the provoking incident of the previous week still fresh in his mind , Lefevre had taken the precaution of hiring a cab in advance of any possible need , telling the driver half-truthfully that he was waiting for someone . |
| 11 | At least Offler had taken the loss of a perfectly good troll with precise , if somewhat reptilian , grace . |
| 12 | Sensibly , from the point of view of the regime , Nicholas had taken the precaution of consigning the one prominent conspirator of 1825 who actually came from Siberia , Grigorii Baten'kov , to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg . |