Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 2 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 3 | In October 1962 Kennedy blockaded Cuba and forced Khruschev to withdraw his missiles in a crisis which seemed to take the world to the brink of nuclear war . |
| 4 | Parker agreed to do so ‘ on Christian principles ’ which included taking no pay and banning racing results : this was somewhat ironic , given Bottomley 's links to the racing world . |
| 5 | In response to an outline of the CNAA 's difficulties the DES officers expressed the view that the difficulty lay with the Committee for Education , ‘ which appeared to take a divergent and insufficiently flexible view ’ on the question of devising course units in common between the BEd and other courses . |
| 6 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 7 | The watchers were now bellowing encouragement to each of the players in a game which had taken a new turn . |
| 8 | In the course of his visit Mandela addressed Congress and travelled to other US cities which had taken a strong anti-apartheid stance , including Atlanta , Georgia , where he visited the tomb of the Rev. Martin Luther King . |
| 9 | One training organisation , which had taken a twenty three percent cut in funds in 1990 ninety one , had to take a further twenty percent cut this year , and the people who are worst affected by these cuts were the very people that the Tory Party had been crying crocodile tears over for so long . |
| 10 | I paid £12.10s. for it , which had taken a year to save . |
| 11 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 12 | Then the kitchen ; and the small scullery , bathroom , and lavatory , which had taken the place of the older , larger scullery . |
| 13 | It was some years since this had been preoccupied with anything but work , which had taken the place of his former bodily urgings , fulfilling him completely . |
| 14 | It was the cavalry and the knightly host which had taken the beating . |
| 15 | Until then Britain , which had taken the initiative in founding WEU out of the wreckage of the EDC , tended to place little credence in it . |
| 16 | But industrial growth would gradually provide the resources for improvements in wages and conditions of the kind which had taken the sting out of revolutionary ferment in the West . |
| 17 | I pointed to my hip bones , especially the right which had taken the weight of the chain . |
| 18 | Lillie next appears in the story addressing the 1965 meeting of the International Whaling Commission which had taken an intermittent and desultory interest in so-called humane killing of whales . |