Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] take [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The government appeared to take little interest in the schemes of the Family Endowment Society .
6 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 .
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