Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] taken [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 2 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not comment any further , except to say that I have taken legal advice on this matter . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have taken great pains to stress that aspect in the sometimes heated discussions , ’ he said , adding he was not enthusiastic about the original proposals and still had serious reservations . |
| 5 | ‘ I have taken human life , ’ she cried . |
| 6 | In order to make myself comprehensible to them , I have taken particular pains with the style and clarity of the exposition … " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 9 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 10 | Yeah i I would advise you to contact the er notify the superannuation section yes of any re-employment if you 've taken premature retirement . |
| 11 | Unless you 've taken good care of your windows over the years , they are probably looking a little peaky — and may be downright poorly . |
| 12 | Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts . |
| 13 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 14 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 15 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 16 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 17 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 18 | If you have taken the recommended Norwich Union insurance cover you must make an insurance claim under the Legal Expenses section in respect of any legal fees incurred abroad for that purpose , and if you have taken alternative insurance , you must do likewise under any Legal Expenses cover provided by it . |
| 19 | We 've taken Total Heating , that unique blend of storage heaters , panel heaters and other space-saving electric heaters plus electric water heating and added a totally new dimension . |
| 20 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 21 | Well there as I mentioned a staff reduction of a hundred and ninety two and significant er staff reduct er cost reduction in other , other areas we , we analyze every single er publishing unit and where the erm where they were marginally profitable or less than marginally profitable er we 've taken appropriate action . |
| 22 | ‘ The weather 's not improving , and with us wallowing around like a drunken whale we 've taken heavy seas over the stern . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Beck explained : ‘ We have taken adverse publicity over the way we play . |
| 25 | We have taken great care to make sure that the foods recommended on the diet are all widely available , little influenced by seasonal variations . |
| 26 | Furthermore , we have taken great care during twinning visits to make sure the teams are fully representative . |
| 27 | ‘ We have taken short-term action in Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh , but we need a comprehensive review , ’ said Coun Walsh . |
| 28 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 29 | Erm we have taken various steps immediately , one is that the vandalism that taking place over the erm we have immediately re-secured , I have to say there 's been about fifty erm tickets out to re-secure those those , that site over the summer but they have been re-secured and tomorrow morning there will be the commencement of bricking up of the doors and windows of the ground floor of block D , block . |
| 30 | We have taken significant steps to deal with that problem . |