Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have taken a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 2 | Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse . |
| 3 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 4 | I feel only that we have taken a wrong direction somewhere , and are blindly stumbling on because our leaders blindfold us . |
| 5 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 6 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 7 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 8 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 9 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 10 | Although his title , The Rural Muse : Studies in the Peasant Poetry of England ( 1954 ) , implies that he has taken a positive view , he is hardpressed at times to defend the value of the peasant poet : |