Example sentences of "[vb past] take this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations .
2 They 'd taken this information back .
3 So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously .
4 Neil , ’ I said , urgently , ‘ he did take this picture tonight , and whatever he took it for , it 's got to mean he 'll be coming back for it , and soon .
5 There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned .
6 It was n't a red-hot knife , it 's just simply that the surgeon had taken this knife , started to carve her abdomen open , and the heat part of the heat was the actual blood that was coming out of this wound .
7 Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon .
8 He had taken this attitude himself , but was finding it very uncomfortable to maintain , after his long years of quiet in the bush , untroubled by anything worse than wind or weather .
9 When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug .
10 That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court .
11 The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view .
12 Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States .
13 Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ?
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