Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour gone the captain has an injury but his side have taken the lead . |
| 2 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 3 | Montag returns home just after his first meeting with Clarisse to discover his wife has taken an overdose of sleeping tablets . |
| 4 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 5 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 6 | As a boy , he had been certain that he was adopted , or that his mother had taken a lover . |