Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it . |
| 2 | I got to take care of this too . |
| 3 | I tried taking mistresses , like Céline , the French dancer . |
| 4 | Then she spoke to the mirror , ‘ There were times when he was drunk , when I tried to take advantage of him , thinking he might forget to use one of those … things ! ’ |
| 5 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |
| 6 | I 'd taken Monty 's advice and shined my shoes . |
| 7 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 8 | I should have realized when I 'd taken Tracey 's book in . |
| 9 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 10 | Cos he used to go shooting there and and they went in there and they should n't of done because Michael told them I 'd taken meadows back and he sa , he said when Tony told them , they , they 'd been there shooting he said well they 're , they 're out of bounds ! |
| 11 | By the time he 'd got inside , I 'd taken Martin 's arm and we were down the alley outside the Pontefract Castle just as the doors opened . |
| 12 | ‘ There speaks the man who drove us here at such breakneck speed that I began to take pity on his poor Ferrari 's engine . |
| 13 | But then I learned my new friends took drugs , and I began to take drugs , too . |
| 14 | And barn owls are very inquisitive , as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields . |
| 15 | I began to take notice of her when she was hardly thirteen years old . |
| 16 | ‘ I was never any good at sport at school although I loved to take part . |
| 17 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 18 | I think I was about nineteen when I started taking drugs . |
| 19 | Then Ron and I started taking James to Sunday School at the Community Church . |
| 20 | I started to take things from the house as well , y'know , little things that I thought would n't be noticed . |
| 21 | to allow his adored sixteen-year-old son to live alone in Cape Town , so I offered to take John into my home … |
| 22 | I went to take part in a farming discussion at the Country Living Fair , held in Islington . |
| 23 | I went to take Wendy 's laundry round Tuesday night I forget why I was , I do n't know , well I did n't call but I just drove on and got myself a says Jim you 're early tonight , quarter past ten . |
| 24 | ‘ He was at the house , when I went to take Azor for a walk , ’ she stated stiffly . |
| 25 | When I was much younger I did take chances from time to time and can recall more than one close shave . |
| 26 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 27 | I am positive the only reason I 'm still here is because I did take drugs . |
| 28 | But I I did take part in it when I was a a boy in school , and that 's a that 's a fair while ago , now right enough , but er er I used to attend the er Well a primary school , I went to the small Grimness school , in the north end of South Ronaldsay , which has now been closed for over twenty years . |
| 29 | And erm I said take Kirsty 's sleeping bag and call in here for a sleeping bag and I 'll give you a couple of blankets to go with it . |
| 30 | The body shape and layout did n't imply anything , and so for once I had to take things as they came . |