Example sentences of "[pers pn] has taken the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Barry wants to see how she has taken the race and I do n't think he will make his mind up until next week , ’ said owner-breeder Dick Hollingsworth . |
| 2 | Harvey may refuse the usual ‘ women 's role ’ but she has taken the indie scene by storm by writing some starkly troubled sexual vignettes while sounding as if she 's profoundly at ease in her own skin . |
| 3 | She has taken the issues raised in Woman to Woman and produced Entering the Masquerade . |
| 4 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 5 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 6 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 7 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 8 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 9 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |
| 10 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 11 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
| 13 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 14 | Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language . |
| 15 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 16 | The discussion has several times strayed into semiological terminology and it has taken the nature of ideology largely for granted ; both signification and ideology in popular music demand detailed study . |
| 17 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 18 | It has taken the Tories ' current enthusiasm for copying Labour policies — and this week 's signal from the Bank of England that it favours a form of credit controls — to start to blur that image . |
| 19 | The more the hybridizing and crossing back and forth has concentrated on the spectacular , the further it has taken the plants from the vigour of their natural origins , and the less resistant many have become to pest and disease . |
| 20 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 21 | It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work . |