Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 8 | I began to take daily photographs just to see , at the end of the month , how much had moved without one noticing . |
| 9 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 10 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
| 11 | ‘ When I started taking those wickets last summer , I began did begin to think I had a chance of representing my country but , to be truthful , I did n't think it could be more than the England A side . |
| 12 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 13 | I kept taking quick glances but you always looked inscrutable . |
| 14 | I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion . |
| 15 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Apart from wanting the law or whatever to catch up with him ( which it did n't ) , I had taken little notice , and no interest , in John 's furtive and elaborate preparations for travel — the series of interviews with the Reverend Kreditor , for example . |
| 18 | I also bound up with my brochure , a number of photographs ; for I had taken two cameras abroad . |
| 19 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 20 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 21 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 22 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 23 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 24 | As ye know , most doctors in the islands get six months ' leave every three years , and I volunteered to take one man 's place soon after I had qualified . |
| 25 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 26 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 27 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 28 | If you 'd taken more care … ’ |
| 29 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 30 | 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 . |