Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he determined to take that too . |
| 2 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 3 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 4 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 5 | Then I decided to take some of it back to the shore with me . |
| 6 | But then you 'd taken that to be that first woman , that Gill person , Gill |
| 7 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 8 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 9 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 10 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 11 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |