Example sentences of "'d taken [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last May just days before his finals he telephoned his mother in Singapore to say he 'd taken 200 pills . |
| 2 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 3 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 4 | The inquest into his death found he 'd taken nine times the usual dose of LSD … but recorded an open verdict . |
| 5 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 6 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 7 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 8 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 9 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 10 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 11 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 12 | At quarter to eleven her old friend Jerry , the Valium addict , wandered in complaining of stomach pains and said he 'd taken another overdose . |
| 13 | He 'd taken another cigarette ! |
| 14 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 16 | If you 'd taken more care … ’ |
| 17 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 18 | They 'd taken this information back . |
| 19 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 20 | She 'd taken some clothes , though scarcely enough , even for three days . |
| 21 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 22 | The Gotobeds were bad owners , you see ; our dad was killed by a rock fall that would never have happened , Mr Evans says , if they 'd taken proper safety precautions . |