Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 2 | Many of the first group , it can be presumed , were married women , while some were teenagers who had taken part-time temporary jobs whilst still at school . |
| 3 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 4 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 5 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 6 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 7 | After two weeks nobody had taken any . |
| 8 | This Report has already mentioned both the composers who have taken these opportunities with happy results for the Church , and the production of much locally written music . |
| 9 | Money also serves to bribe the officials who have to take this decision . |
| 10 | An elderly lady , a writer of crime-stories , was featured ; for years she has taken regular night walks , striding out for miles through the city of London , observant of everything around her . |
| 11 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 12 | For housing purposes we 've taken large chunks out of our greenbelt , signalling that in terms of regeneration , we do n't have regeneration housing sites . |
| 13 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 14 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 15 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 16 | There is a natural reluctance to make criminals of suppliers who have taken reasonable steps to ensure that their goods accord with modern standards . |
| 17 | The studies themselves have taken various forms , some directly addressing the issue of creativity and psychosis , others reporting results that bear indirectly on it . |
| 18 | Of the 10 patients who had taken oral contraceptives , only one developed gall stone recurrence but neither of the two patients taking hormone replacement treatment developed recurrent stones . |
| 19 | Now Wales hope he can boost their World Cup qualifying hopes against the Group Four leaders who have taken maximum points from their opening four games . |
| 20 | Friday night 's goalscorer , Chris Malkin , added : ‘ We are disappointed because in our last two matches we 've taken one point , when we 've probably deserved six . |
| 21 | In his teens he 'd taken 157 senior wickets ( average 11.81 ) for Shields and made 29 Durham County appearances , claiming 65 wickets at 21.41 . |
| 22 | The historians who have taken this line have identified Eleanor and her eldest daughter , Marie , Countess of Champagne ( 1140–98 ) , as the outstanding patrons of this dangerous movement . |
| 23 | When Charles took Corsica and Sardinia , he drove out Saracens who had taken these islands , in tum , from the East Romans . |
| 24 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 25 | Pupils themselves have to take much more responsibility for the work they do . |
| 26 | An " international brigade " of young environmentalists who have taken direct action against the construction work have in turn been attacked by a " valley militia " of locals who support the development . |
| 27 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |