Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] take some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 4 | to take cough and things like , and I nearly died the other night , I 'd taken one and I 'd taken some of this cough , |
| 5 | Then I decided to take some of it back to the shore with me . |
| 6 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 7 | That 's a point , I wanted to take some stronger painkillers back with me , what have you got ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd taken some clothes , though scarcely enough , even for three days . |
| 11 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 12 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 13 | At last , after another million years persuading David she would be all right when she had taken some aspirin , she was alone , in her own flat . |
| 14 | Friends then , the three of us — me sitting in the back of the old Countryman as it rattled along , Edward at the wheel singing Verdi as though he 'd just found the key to the Hermetic Mystery if not that of the aria he 'd chosen , while Laura , who had taken some persuading , groaned and laughed beside him . |
| 15 | Suppose also that , on another day , you had taken some shots of the unloading of a catch at the same location . |
| 16 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 17 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 18 | And we , I think we did take some with us did n't we ? |
| 19 | But there , one had to take some chances in life . |
| 20 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 21 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 22 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 23 | Burrows stated that they had taken some seventy statements that night and he could not remember the Wells document . |
| 24 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 25 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 26 | It is believed he may have left home of his own choice as he did take some of his clothes , but there have been no reports of him trying to leave the country . |
| 27 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 28 | But it did take some time . |
| 29 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 30 | Even so , it had taken some little effort on his part , for here was this relatively obscure relation who had fallen into an estate , which , although small , was of no mean value , and he had fallen into it by a series of dead men 's shoes . |