Example sentences of "[vb past] take [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This course , modified to take one day , was repeated in January for the officers in charge of Evening Duty and in March for those next in seniority in the evenings . |
| 2 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 3 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 4 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 5 | Last May just days before his finals he telephoned his mother in Singapore to say he 'd taken 200 pills . |
| 6 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 7 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 8 | The inquest into his death found he 'd taken nine times the usual dose of LSD … but recorded an open verdict . |
| 9 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 10 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 11 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 12 | Donaghy admitted taking five pairs of jeans , value £185 and £1,000 worth of other clothing as well as £540 in cash . |
| 13 | The Swiss played us off the field in both our European ties a year ago , yet we managed to take three points from them . |
| 14 | The National Trust declined , CADW are still considering the proposal , the Brecknock Wildlife Trust agreed to take 1,000 leaflets and the Dyfed Wildlife Trust 3,000 . |
| 15 | The National Trust declined , CADW are still considering the proposal , the Brecknock Wildlife Trust agreed to take 1,000 leaflets and the Dyfed Wildlife Trust 3,000 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that there is widespread protest against the sentence of two months ' imprisonment … passed on the Liverpool Constable who admitted that he had taken four oranges , worth threepence , from a shed in the West Canada Dock … pilfering by the Police is a different matter from the same offence committed by a street urchin . |
| 18 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 19 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 20 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
| 21 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 22 | Her preparations had taken six weeks . |
| 23 | The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 24 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
| 25 | Zborowski told Carco how he had taken fifteen canvases to a merchant the other morning and wanted very little money for them , but the merchant sent him away … |
| 26 | It was a chutzpah ; Zvi Lipsky had taken thirty years to build up his practice and reputation . |
| 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 | The ascent had taken 4 hours ! |
| 29 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
| 30 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |