Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Euric did take some of the advice offered . |
| 5 | Janice had taken that day off from the library . |
| 6 | Mr. Golding seemed to take much more care when bottling wine . |
| 7 | In the present case Booth J. did take that into account . |
| 8 | But Adam had taken that line and it had n't done him much good . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | God had taken all those for himself . |
| 11 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 12 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 13 | Juliet started to take some books from her bag . |
| 14 | What Meredith Jones did took some months and what he did was unprecedented . |
| 15 | Mallachy had taken some persuading , and as the two young women emerged , he gave a sour grunt . |
| 16 | Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt . |
| 17 | Before Isabel had taken another breath she found herself on her back , gazing up at him bemusedly . |
| 18 | She glanced up , apparently casually , to see if Nenna had taken this too hard . |
| 19 | Or perhaps Laura had taken all her things with her . |
| 20 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 21 | Alice Fernie had taken enough of this . |
| 22 | Their journey from London had taken several days and he was stiff and saddle sore , but he wanted to see more of this great city before finding an inn for the night . |
| 23 | Rome refused to take any part in these proceedings , except by unofficial observers . |
| 24 | After In-Keeping , the 11-10 favourite , had stormed to a five-length success , Scudamore refused to take any of the credit for his latest statistical breakthrough . |
| 25 | ‘ With the Bob Marley exhibition ( which toured last year ) Adrian had taken most of the pictures , so we knew what the images were . |
| 26 | On her first day Tess had to take some of the chickens to show to their owner . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Jasper stood taking all this in . |