Example sentences of "[vb past] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 2 | A CRAZED donkey nearly tore the arm off an eight-year-old boy as he stopped to take a holiday snap . |
| 3 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 4 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 5 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 6 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 7 | I pretended to take a stone out of my shoe . |
| 8 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 9 | It was n't until they were er sort of six or seven years old that er you 'd , you 'd took a part time job . |
| 10 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 11 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 12 | He later admitted he 'd taken a tablet supplied by another pupil . |
| 13 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 14 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 15 | I think in truth erm er we 'd taken a weekend off and er to go to Venice , there was a big er art exhibition on and Anne wanted to see that . |
| 16 | But I have a gem of a nun who 's a wizard with a needle , and after she 'd taken a tuck in the waist and put two inches on the hem , they looked almost tailor-made . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 18 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |
| 19 | He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way . |
| 20 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 21 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 22 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 23 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 24 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 25 | Once , she 'd taken a hammer to the headlamp of his motorcycle . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 27 | no my wallet and some one handed it in and they 'd taken a fiver out of it , they 'd gone , oh , oh |
| 28 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 29 | They 'd taken a ballot and the members had agreed . |
| 30 | She 'd taken a liking to Silvia and had no wish to betray her and get her into trouble with her quarrelsome cousin . |