Example sentences of "[vb base] taken the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 2 | And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right . |
| 3 | Er we would like to see that improved , indeed part of the proposals for er these schemes before us today , we have taken the opportunity for Killinghall of extending that original close in bypass to bypass sections indeed some of the poorest sections of the A sixty one , to the north of Killinghall where we have a very bad accident record , those will be bypassed by the continuation of this scheme north of Killinghall . |
| 4 | Many people whose films have been lost have taken the processors to court , winning compensation for more than the cost of the film . |
| 5 | In the discussion I have taken the necessity of quantification for granted ( although it sometimes happens in such communities that some patterns of variation are obvious without formal quantification ) . |
| 6 | Ministers have taken the decision despite warnings from some civil servants that their failure to fund research into nuclear safety could backfire on them at the Sizewell public inquiry now under way in Suffolk . |
| 7 | This time the losers , including the cities of New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Houston , and the US Conference of Mayors , have taken the bureau to court to try to make it agree to change its initial 1990 findings and to add in its estimated under-count . |
| 8 | we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ; |
| 9 | Terry Acheson , a director of the locally-owned Londonderry processing-plant , said : ‘ We have taken the lead in marketing Farm Quality Assured lambs from seven local lamb groups to customers across the water and on the Continent . |
| 10 | Others have taken the form of warriors , children , headless women , PHANTOM coaches , monks and many more . |
| 11 | It will have been observed that nearly all the cases in this chapter arising from industrial disputes have taken the form of actions against individual workers or trade union officials . |
| 12 | These have taken the form of protest meetings , marches and other types of direct action over a variety of issues . |
| 13 | The familiar brand names with their images have taken the place of statues and icons and the things people used to look at . |