Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other drivers had taken a break and carried off a number of her fellow spectators , but Simon had yet to appear . |
| 2 | Time after time , companies have taken a dive , leaving a mass of dead and dying labels in their wake . |
| 3 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 4 | He led Leeds to the English championship last season but the team 's fortunes have taken a dive this year . |
| 5 | THE fight for the return of Barnard Castle auction mart 's licence to certify cattle has taken a step forward with the involvement of the town 's MP . |
| 6 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 7 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
| 8 | Interference theories have taken a variety of forms . |
| 9 | Too many players had taken a rest after the World Cup and there 's no substitute for playing if you want to stay match fit . |
| 10 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
| 11 | Such moves have taken a number of different forms : |
| 12 | The Speaker of the House of Commons , Bernard Weatherill , has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead . |
| 13 | In fact , he said , since the treaty was negotiated , the outlook for European economies had taken a turn for the worse and national problems now loomed large on the domestic agenda , causing people 's perceptions about the treaty to change . |
| 14 | By now , at Virgin 's instigation , negotiations had taken a turn in another direction . |
| 15 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 16 | The ‘ Grandstand ’ television cameras had taken a break from horse-racing and cricket to record the closing holes of an event that had captured a good deal of public interest . |
| 17 | Before that all the students had taken a course which qualified them to teach children for their first five years in school . |
| 18 | The tiles had taken a month to arrive , and if a replacement batch was required it would mean her hanging fire on the commission for another four weeks . |
| 19 | Outside , the cottage industries have taken a rest as the heat of the afternoon settles heavily on the town like an unwelcome blanket . |
| 20 | Despite original opposition to the principle of the MDC all three local authorities have taken a place on the board . |
| 21 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 22 | German and Swedish trade unions have taken a role in the initiation of flexibility in the workplace , in the promoting of job enrichment through the broadening of job classifications . |