Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] take [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March 1962 , however , the Soviet military had taken several steps — nuclear weapons ' tests , the development of the ‘ global rocket ’ , the redeploying of launch sites — to bolster the credibility of the Soviet deterrent , and commentators once again ‘ buried the myth of the invulnerability of the United States of America ’ ( Pravda , 31 March 1962 , in Zimmerman : 1969 , pp. 189–90 ) . |
| 2 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 3 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 4 | ‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't a red-hot knife , it 's just simply that the surgeon had taken this knife , started to carve her abdomen open , and the heat part of the heat was the actual blood that was coming out of this wound . |
| 6 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 7 | The government appeared to take little interest in the schemes of the Family Endowment Society . |
| 8 | The tunnel had taken several months to build and some of the accusations which had been made against these same people now looked rather silly . |
| 9 | Anyway in the end he and the Education Officer did take some action to control the bullies and since then there has been no trouble . |