Example sentences of "[verb] taken [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 3 | ‘ He has taken his own life in a dramatic gesture which some have described as futile . ’ |
| 4 | After an eight month investigation , Gloucestershire police came to the conclusion that he 'd taken his own life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Should have taken my own |
| 9 | Hence the alarmed thought on the part of many that he might have taken his own life . |
| 10 | Not , in other words , the kind of man who would have taken his own life within hours of writing that letter to ‘ Liz ’ . |
| 11 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 12 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 13 | Time in the monastery on the Via Siciliana-where Hamilton seems to have taken his own vow of silence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well I 've taken me own as well . |
| 16 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 17 | The study found twenty-one students had taken their own lives over a fourteen year period , and more than two hundred and fifty others attempted suicide.Simon Garrett reports . |
| 18 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 19 | If Marek was right , Tatyana had taken her own life less as a result of the news of the murder Blanche had brought , than of her son 's dreadful confession . |
| 20 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 21 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 22 | If he had taken his own rule seriously , he would have found out that DRG has a very modest self-service canteen at its Bristol head office . |
| 23 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 24 | ‘ It is plain that all the indications were that Monsieur Gebrec had taken his own life … it was only on account of my promise to his mother … ’ |
| 25 | He fought for a while , hence the strands of cord found under the finger nails , but he was murdered and left there to hang so others would think he had taken his own life . ’ |
| 26 | When you say a wife , you mean Mrs there was n't any suggestion that Lawrence had taken his own wife ? |
| 27 | And Manchester United have taken their former keeper Fraser Digby on a month 's loan from Swindon Town as cover for Peter Schmeichel . |
| 28 | This is because of the theological stance of some that people who have taken their own lives can not go to heaven , but instead go to hell eternally because the sin is viewed as such a serious one . |
| 29 | Some of you have taken your own initiatives to make contact with counterparts and we can help you there too . |