Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 32 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 33 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 34 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |
| 35 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 36 | But then you 'd taken that to be that first woman , that Gill person , Gill |
| 37 | If you 'd taken more care … ’ |
| 38 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 39 | She 'd taken some clothes , though scarcely enough , even for three days . |
| 40 | you forgot to take that poll tax form to your boss |
| 41 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 42 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 43 | You are n't the same person since you started taking those things , Clare . |
| 44 | What , you 've only had them since you started taking those tablets ? |
| 45 | By the time she dared take another look — this time squinting through almost closed eyes — the star 's appearance had completely changed . |
| 46 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
| 47 | She paused to take another sip of wine , conscious of Rune 's unremitting interest in her recital . |
| 48 | She had to take all the money in his wallet , she explained , because her ‘ business manager ’ would beat her up if she did n't turn in the profits . |
| 49 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 50 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 51 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 52 | She had to take another look . |
| 53 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 54 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 55 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 56 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 57 | Before Nicola Hammond had gone for her walk with Gunter Schmidt , she had taken all the money in her wallet and lined her bra with it . |
| 58 | Nora 's virtual command , reinforced by her petulant departure , had no bearing — except that she had taken all the pleasure out of it for him . |
| 59 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 60 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |