Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] taken the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 2 | The United States had taken the initiative in this development , since it appeared the only means by which the Americans could disengage gradually from Korea with some hope that the UN could produce a solution that would sustain south Korea for at least a limited period . |
| 3 | No one should get the impression from this that Rotherham had taken the gay community to its bosom . |
| 4 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 5 | Mexico had taken the initiative for this round of talks and had indicated that it would like to see an agreement signed within a year , although ministers were careful not to commit themselves to deadlines . |
| 6 | I had to , Richard had taken the car , he takes it in the morning , but |
| 7 | It had received an influx of lawyers from Rome when the Normans had taken the city in 1084 . |
| 8 | By then Jeanne had taken the extraordinarily courageous step of leaving her comfortable home to live openly with Modigliani in a seedy hotel room . |
| 9 | The Sergeant could not but have noted how Lexandro had taken the lead … |
| 10 | Mrs. Hammond had taken the document out to California for Mr. Steed to execute . |
| 11 | Burnley had taken the lead in the 13th minute when Adrian Heath capitalised on a dreadful clearance by Town keeper Tom Clarke , slipping the ball past Clarke before slotting into the empty net . |
| 12 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 13 | And this after Blackburn had taken the lead in the first half with a goal from Mike who 's since reduced the arrears to three two with a second goal from the penalty spot . |
| 14 | For the first month of her life Mrs MacDonagh had taken the baby into her own house , along with Eleanor 's eighteen-month-old brother Patrick , and she had bottle fed the baby and kept an eye on her brother amidst the debris of her own life and the squalor of her enormous family . |
| 15 | In the move between the last position and this , a number of the Jocks had taken the opportunity to make a hot drink , and as the chill of early morning crept into them , the sweet tea lifted their morale . |
| 16 | Rehearsals started on 27 July , and Martin Browne had taken the precaution of advising the cast not to ask the author to elucidate any of the dialogue ; one actress disregarded the advice and asked Eliot what one of her lines meant . |
| 17 | In early November Coleridge and the Wordsworths , whose deep and intuitive friendship had begun by now to exclude not only Sara but even Tom Poole , set out on the road to Porlock which Coleridge had taken the previous month . |
| 18 | When one of his blackboards fell onto his foot because Endill had taken the screws from it , he refused to let the class leave until he had discovered the culprit . |
| 19 | Dolly had taken the young gipsy girl to her heart once it was established she would not be marrying Seb . |
| 20 | White South Africa had taken the black men , herded them into workers ' barracks and townships , kept them supplied with beer and prostitutes , then sent them back home with their rand , their tuberculosis and their venereal disease . |
| 21 | Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster . |
| 22 | Giugiaro had taken the unusual step of displaying a chassis too , letting the world see the high standard of carbon-fibre work in his monocoque , the cockpit-adjustable anti-roll bars and the massive 14ins drilled racing disc brakes . |
| 23 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |
| 24 | Miss Lofthouse had taken the wreaths from the Memorial . |
| 25 | By this period ( 1987–8 ) , the DHSS had taken the unusual step of organizing an elaborate exercise of disseminating the results of the research studies , using the summarizing ‘ pink book ’ ( DHSS , 1985b ) as a focus for examining local policy and practice . |
| 26 | Jinny had taken the little girls home and Sarah and Mrs Bennet left . |
| 27 | One eyewitness said : ‘ Di had taken the corner into the school a bit wide and had stopped to avoid a car coming out . |
| 28 | As soon as he 'd switched the light off , Zeno had taken the same route through the yard as Sophie had done a little earlier . |
| 29 | Huy had taken the job after ten days of waiting hopefully for word from Merymose . |
| 30 | By the 1880s the Rothschilds had taken the Vale of Aylesbury by storm . |