Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
| 2 | After booking his place in today 's semi-final as fastest qualifier , McKean said : ‘ I felt totally in command out there , and I 've taken a lot of confidence from that run . ’ |
| 3 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 4 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 5 | no my wallet and some one handed it in and they 'd taken a fiver out of it , they 'd gone , oh , oh |
| 6 | " Right then , " he said , when operations were satisfactorily completed and he had taken a swill of ale , " let's not back and fill , let's have everything full and by . " |
| 7 | She had snipped , and he had taken a lock . |
| 8 | In a moment the paper was back in its folder , and he had taken a step away from her . |
| 9 | Things happen , he thought , and lay on the bed listening , but she had taken a magazine in with her and he fell asleep waiting . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be hard on people like Peter Winterbottom but they have taken a decision to go to London and there 's no room any more for sentiment . ’ |