Example sentences of "[vb base] taken [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hast taken leave of what little sense thou were born with ? |
| 2 | You must avoid negative study habits — like telling yourself you 'll begin that essay when you 've taken notes from one more book . |
| 3 | They 've taken revenge on the weavers |
| 4 | Mr , you 've taken issue with the conservation area . |
| 5 | I know what you 're saying and I think you 've taken leave of your senses . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've taken possession of the place , have n't we ? ’ said Susan laughing . |
| 7 | when I 've taken things to him I must admit |
| 8 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 9 | I know you feel I 've taken Anna from you , Seb , but it is n't true . |
| 10 | The notion of asking ‘ circular questions ’ is a helpful way of developing these interactions , i.e. ‘ Mrs Smith , you had a similar experience to Mr White , how did you cope ? ’ , or ‘ You 've taken tranquillizers in the past and gave them up , what would you say to somebody like Mrs Jones ? ’ |
| 11 | But not just redundancy , we 've taken initiatives in lots of other areas , we 'll show you those as well . |
| 12 | At people 's houses I 've taken cuttings of and |
| 13 | I 've taken suspects to the police station when I have n't been able to break them down , and I 've told my inspector exactly what 's happened , he 's got the whole picture and then he 's closed the door and called the man in , closed the door . |
| 14 | I 've taken care of myself over the years : I hope it shows . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , a little high , but I 've taken care of that . ’ |
| 16 | I think they 've taken care of them . |
| 17 | I 've taken speed as powder right and erm it had an effect like these ones . |
| 18 | I 've taken note of the hints given in Starting Block and I 've organized my hard disk into 19 subdirectories and up to 6 levels of sub-subdirectories . |
| 19 | There are six , two in one department and four in another , I believe it is. erm if you look at erm the way our departments are dotted all over the City , on expensive leases in fact , we 've taken property after property to accommodate our staff and they all need cleaners , so on and so forth . |
| 20 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |
| 21 | Had a er not the best of starts but they 've taken control of the game for my money o over the last period . |
| 22 | Th th they 've come through and they 've taken control of the area . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've taken statements from Mr and Mrs Goodhaven and others , ’ he said stiffly . |
| 24 | We 've taken statements from both ends , Cathedral and village . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've taken scrapings of those areas where the Scapegoat appears to have been secured to the frame . |
| 26 | Business studies have taken precedence for the 25-year-old Stokesley sprinter thus far into the season , but she steps belatedly on to the Olympic trail at Stanley Park on Sunday . |
| 27 | Moreover , the political interests of Eastern Europe 's regimes have taken precedence over the economic interests of society . |
| 28 | A new survey claims that more than forty per cent of students at Oxford University have taken drugs at some time . |
| 29 | THE number of under-25s who have taken drugs in Britain has almost doubled in the last three years . |
| 30 | Her wide eyes and waif-like cheekbones have taken Europe by storm and she is currently the toast of New York since modelling in the Calvin Klein campaign . |