Example sentences of "[vb past] taken [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 2 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 3 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 4 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 5 | There was the sound of feet being carefully wiped on the doormat , as once sharply requested by Mrs Stych soon after her marriage had taken her into polite circles . |
| 6 | He had taken her into another dimension . |
| 7 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 8 | An open space between two darkened structures — warehouses , Alexei thought , although he was not sure that their route had taken them across that quarter of the city — appeared out of the mist to their left like the mouth of an open tomb , and Jotan caught Alexei 's arm and indicated it . |
| 9 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 10 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 11 | No one did want the films , not in America , at least ; Nicholson and Hellman had tampered with the popular view of western history and had taken it to deeper levels , failing totally to appreciate that mass audiences enjoyed westerns purely because they provided escapism . |
| 12 | I could n't see why , because apparently the kid is looked after by a local nursemaid , who had taken it off that day to visit her own family . |