Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation of refugees worsened as Croatia refused to allow in those fleeing from Jacje and Travnik , leaving some 6,000 in camps at the frontier ; Germany agreed to take 1,000 on Nov. 11 and others were accepted by Spain and Austria . |
| 2 | In this reply the United States undertook to take certain action at the request of either or both of the parties in the event of an actual or threatened violation of the agreement , and thus guaranteed the continued observance of the Peace Treaty . |
| 3 | On Saturday 16 February SPAG decided to take legal proceedings against Mogul , as they feared the company would continue to do nothing to rectify the situation . |
| 4 | She had wanted to stay with her brother , but he had called her a child , he had referred to Tallis as the woman whom he loved , and Morthen had taken both statements to her young heart . |
| 5 | He had moreover , unlike Boethius , had the experience of seeing what Viking pirates did to his defenceless subjects ; and again unlike Boethius had taken such drastic measures against evil as hanging Viking prisoners , and rebellious monks , and in all probability cutting the throats of any wounded pirates so unlucky as to be left on the battlefield . |
| 6 | According to the Croatian Assembly election results after the second round of voting on May 6-7 , the HDZ had taken 205 out of the 356 seats in the three Assembly chambers . |
| 7 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 8 | But Euric did take some of the advice offered . |
| 9 | Janice had taken that day off from the library . |
| 10 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 11 | Martin played in two Tests in India and one in Pakistan on the way home , in front of massive crowds , picking up eight further wickets and playing a few useful tailend innings ; but there was only one Test appearance to come , and that was at Port Elizabeth on the 1966–67 tour , the final Test , after Martin had taken 11 wickets in the Griqualand West match and six in the South African XI match at Pietermaritzburg preceding the Test . |
| 12 | She says that Helen had to take 99 exams to qualify as an astronaut . |
| 13 | In June , Canada volunteered to take 6000 to 7000 and Australia 10,000 prisoners of war and dangerous internees . |
| 14 | Mr. Golding seemed to take much more care when bottling wine . |
| 15 | In the present case Booth J. did take that into account . |
| 16 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 17 | And then , when he said that , Viola Angotti had taken two steps forward . |
| 18 | But Adam had taken that line and it had n't done him much good . |
| 19 | ‘ We struggled badly last summer because the SSD had taken terrible cuts and lost management and closed services ’ , says Roycroft . |
| 20 | Harry had taken three of them down with him ; five altogether had been doctored . |
| 21 | By December 1858 St Petersburg had taken two of the three decisions which led to the statutes of 1861 : the decision to emancipate and the decision to emancipate with land . |
| 22 | Donaghy admitted taking five pairs of jeans , value £185 and £1,000 worth of other clothing as well as £540 in cash . |
| 23 | Preparations for another expedition to Brittany were under discussion in May 1374 , and in August Duke John , together with Edmund Langley Earl of Cambridge , the Earl of March and Edward Despenser agreed to take 4,000 men to the duchy for a year . |
| 24 | Though interested in nature , I was still frightened by the demands of the Great Beast and hung back , watching jealously how the coquettish Lady Francesca seemed to take great interest in Benjamin but remained impervious to my own presence . |
| 25 | Taken together , Carter 's handling of economic affairs , the hostage crisis and foreign policy in general combined to give him ‘ the lowest job approval ratings of any president since Gallup began taking these measurements in the 1940s ’ . |
| 26 | Huy had taken one of her hands in his , running his thumb across it . |
| 27 | It was reported that Langer and Fernandez had taken 4 hours 25 minutes ; 15 minutes had been lost , a complete hole , on the match in front , yet neither player was disciplined . |
| 28 | It was a chutzpah ; Zvi Lipsky had taken thirty years to build up his practice and reputation . |
| 29 | Herrick had taken great pains to make sure he was protected . |
| 30 | Greenpeace had taken one of its boats , the Cedarlea , to monitor the radioactivity at the end of the Sellafield discharge pipeline . |