Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole trial could hang on whether or not I 'd thought to take that stupid , self-centred , mad old woman flowers ? ’ |
| 2 | I could hardly refuse , but I did refuse to take any payment , although I really needed the money . |
| 3 | When I told Miranda , she burst into tears , so I said lets take some flowers . |
| 4 | But so far she had refused to take any of them seriously — sensible Caroline . |
| 5 | The mother herself appears to have thought so , for she later stated that she regretted having taken that step at that time . |
| 6 | And we had to run to take these chickens |
| 7 | You need to get that , need to keep that down because if you do go to the hospital , and they did decide to take that out , they would ne d they would check your blood pressure and they would chase you . |
| 8 | On overturning a Tory majority last time of 2,639 , he appeared to have taken all the Labour gain from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 10 | He had wanted to take each part ; eyes , skin , hair , bones , and he had wanted to scoop her up and hold her between his hands and never release her again . |
| 11 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 12 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 13 | If he had failed to take this action he would probably have been unaware of the emergency . |