Example sentences of "[coord] taken [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it . |
| 2 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 3 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 4 | Having ‘ given his best ’ to the centre for four years and taken a major role in setting it up , he obviously felt ‘ very disappointed ’ he would n't be part of its new phase . |
| 5 | Now Mrs Thatcher had originally gone to Peking just after the Falklands war , full of vim , and taken a hard line . |
| 6 | Having thought through some or all of these questions and taken a hard look at the future you next need to analyse the job itself . |
| 7 | They will have travelled wider , and taken the European dimension for granted in their lives . |
| 8 | Already his men would have heard his words and taken the appropriate action . |
| 9 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 10 | Those MPs of a so-called ‘ dry ’ tendency have regarded the control of inflation via a tight rein on the money supply as the primary objective of a government 's economic policy , favoured free-market policies and a reduction of state ownership and spending , and taken an authoritarian line on law and order and many social issues . |