Example sentences of "[verb] taken [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 2 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 3 | Walker Greenbank , the wall-covering group , has taken its former auditor , Arthur Young , to court over the firm 's failure to detect an alleged fraud in one of its subsidiaries . |
| 4 | It has taken him all these years to understand the implications . |
| 5 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 6 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 7 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 8 | ‘ He has taken his own life in a dramatic gesture which some have described as futile . ’ |
| 9 | Sensibly the 18-year-old Glengormley rider has taken it all in his youthful stride and will contest the final round in Italy . |
| 10 | Then , as if to prove she 'd taken it all down her gullet , she opened her mouth wide for his inspection . |
| 11 | After an eight month investigation , Gloucestershire police came to the conclusion that he 'd taken his own life . |
| 12 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 13 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that if CCs had been on offer at the time , Bruin would probably have taken them all . |
| 16 | She supposed Elder Seth must have taken them all with him when he left in his motorwagon train . |
| 17 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
| 18 | ‘ So what did you do after that — it ca n't have taken you all day ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 20 | By the end I had a great admiration for Emil , Oliver and Cathy , who had neatly served and cleared three full courses with the floor swaying beneath their feet and who normally would have taken my few jobs also in their stride . |
| 21 | Should have taken my own |
| 22 | Hence the alarmed thought on the part of many that he might have taken his own life . |
| 23 | Not , in other words , the kind of man who would have taken his own life within hours of writing that letter to ‘ Liz ’ . |
| 24 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 25 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 26 | Time in the monastery on the Via Siciliana-where Hamilton seems to have taken his own vow of silence . |
| 27 | The third year student , known to his friends simply as Donm Lau is thought to have taken his own life just days from his final exams in modern history . |
| 28 | Oh do n't worry about it now , all the plastic things then put put on that blue leaflet for now and then when you 've taken them all off you can put them in the bin . |
| 29 | Well I 've taken me own as well . |
| 30 | I 've taken someone this afternoon from Highdown just until the half term when they should go to a special school . |