Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had wanted to stay with her brother , but he had called her a child , he had referred to Tallis as the woman whom he loved , and Morthen had taken both statements to her young heart . |
| 2 | He had moreover , unlike Boethius , had the experience of seeing what Viking pirates did to his defenceless subjects ; and again unlike Boethius had taken such drastic measures against evil as hanging Viking prisoners , and rebellious monks , and in all probability cutting the throats of any wounded pirates so unlucky as to be left on the battlefield . |
| 3 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 4 | The Dragoons had taken several prisoners and the Covenanters decided to intercept the soldiers and free the captives . |
| 5 | The wind had taken more of my energy than it saved , and without the sail , the wheelbarrow was much easier to control . |
| 6 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 7 | But as Office Talk snapped Take That arriving in their mean looking black Mercedes , Drury House was rocked by the screams of fans lining the pavement for a glimpse of Robbie , Mark , and the rest of the boys . |
| 8 | But Euric did take some of the advice offered . |
| 9 | Janice had taken that day off from the library . |
| 10 | In awarding penalties for failure to comply with precepts issued under s 51 , TMA 1970 , the General Commissioners had taken all the relevant circumstances into account and the Court would not vary the amounts determined , according to the Chancery Division in Delapage Ltd v Highbury General Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 205 . |
| 11 | The Queen had taken little or no interest in the appointment when the informal suggestion of Admiral Bryson came from Downing Street in 1989 . |
| 12 | By March 1962 , however , the Soviet military had taken several steps — nuclear weapons ' tests , the development of the ‘ global rocket ’ , the redeploying of launch sites — to bolster the credibility of the Soviet deterrent , and commentators once again ‘ buried the myth of the invulnerability of the United States of America ’ ( Pravda , 31 March 1962 , in Zimmerman : 1969 , pp. 189–90 ) . |
| 13 | Only a small minority ( 5 per cent ) of all temporary workers had taken such jobs because they were tied to a course of training , and most of these were young adults . |
| 14 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 15 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 16 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 17 | Mr. Golding seemed to take much more care when bottling wine . |
| 18 | In the present case Booth J. did take that into account . |
| 19 | Simmons ( 1978 ) noted that geographers had taken little notice of the wave of concern for environment which peaked about 1972 and he proceeded to argue in favour of a humanistic biogeography ( see p. 124 ) . |
| 20 | By the 1920s other ports had taken much of Gloucester 's corn trade and some of the dock warehouses became used for purposes other than corn storage . |
| 21 | But Adam had taken that line and it had n't done him much good . |
| 22 | Last season , United lost the title after being such odds-on favourites in March that bookmakers refused to take any more bets . |
| 23 | All patients stopped taking any acid inhibitory agents at least two weeks before entering the study and none had received bismuth preparations in the past . |
| 24 | Taken together , Carter 's handling of economic affairs , the hostage crisis and foreign policy in general combined to give him ‘ the lowest job approval ratings of any president since Gallup began taking these measurements in the 1940s ’ . |
| 25 | The Commission had taken much of its case from the evidence of the BBFC , differing only in proposing that the private exhibition of films on domestic occasions should not be subject to criminal sanction provided that no person under 16 was present and no charge was made for the exhibition or for anything provided in connection with it . |
| 26 | God had taken all those for himself . |
| 27 | ‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’ |
| 28 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 29 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 30 | Apart from antacids none of the patients had taken any medical treatment during the 14 days before their initial endoscopy . |