Example sentences of "[verb] taken [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 2 | Starting off with paragraph thirty three of P P G three , , erm you 'll see in my statement that I 've actually in seeking to address point A dealt with each of the conditions that P P G three er refers to , for which a new settlement should be contemplated , and you will see that I 've reached a conclusion that having regarded the unique circumstances of York , the Greater York new settlement does represent an appropriate and justified policy response , you 'll se also see my statement , I 've taken some comfort from the fact that the good practice guide that has been published by the department of the environment , has endorsed the approach that North Yorkshire County Council has taken towards the special circumstances of the Greater York area . |
| 3 | One other group of insects has taken to the colonial life on a scale that is comparable to the termites ; those with narrow waists , two pairs of transparent wings and powerful stings , the wasps , bees and ants . |
| 4 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 5 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 6 | So ESA has recently had to consent to launch Exosat on one of NASA 's Delta rockets — an option it could have taken in the early 1970s which would have allowed a launch in 1977 . |
| 7 | But the old bobby — he 'd downed his pint of beer — he got taken before the chief constable and he got a serious fine , £1 . |
| 8 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |
| 9 | She sensed trouble in this girl , who seemed to have taken in the entire community below in Knockglen . |
| 10 | There 's one thing that erm I sometimes do to give it colour , is once I 've taken off the outside skin of the onion , the very outside |
| 11 | Charlie sat in the carriage of a train bound for Edinburgh and thought about the actions he had taken during the past four days . |
| 12 | Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades . |
| 13 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 14 | She too had taken to the new helper . |
| 15 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 16 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 17 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 18 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 19 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 20 | At Better Books Miles had taken in the mimeographed magazines . |
| 21 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 22 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 23 | The unsavoury reputation which the last of the sultans acquired during the late nineteenth century — especially Abdülaziz ( 1861–76 ) and Abdülhamid II ( 1876–1909 ) — has coloured the view which many western historians have taken of the Ottoman empire as a whole , but to many Christian subjects the Ottoman empire in its heyday was far from the horrific picture conjured up by the use of the phrase ‘ the long Turkish night ’ . |
| 24 | Private buyers have taken to the new Golf in a big way and this Volkswagen is likely to be a used car market leader for years to come . |
| 25 | Other flatworms have taken to the parasitic life and live unseen within the bodies of other animals , including man 's , and in astronomic numbers . |
| 26 | It rests at an angle , it rests on the er ladders of course because they are ang er the ladders are at an angle like that so part of the weight 's taken by the actual ladders . |