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

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1 One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment .
2 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 .
3 How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ?
4 So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously .
5 Indeed global trade liberalization soon had to take second place to the search for regional solutions — notably in Europe .
6 His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults …
7 On Friday morning she always went to take some food to Kitty Dawson .
8 At first I observed , then began to take some lessons .
9 Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology .
10 But he never tried to take any food from the other children .
11 He subsequently decided to take holy orders in the Church of England and in 1836 entered St David 's College , Lampeter .
12 She stalwartly refused to take any drugs , once again arguing that she could not hold herself responsible if the baby were born deformed .
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