Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 2 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 3 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 4 | The Egyptian had taken a chance , and it had paid off . |
| 5 | In the car park between the Questura and the prison Palottino had taken a break from polishing the Alfetta to chat to a pair of patrolmen . |
| 6 | He sacked Terry Butcher as manager last January after the former England defender refused to take a cut in his £250,000 salary . |
| 7 | Senior management failed to take a lead in clarifying the role of the Beacon in the department 's services to under fives . |
| 8 | Someone from the Vienna art gallery arrived to take a death mask , and crowds of people were soon queuing to view the body , which was laid on a bier in a black suit with a cowl over its head . |
| 9 | Theology began to take a direction that Pius XII found uncomfortable . |
| 10 | The court heard that the child had taken a bottle of Phenol , also known as carbolic acid , while unsupervised , and sipped some . |
| 11 | And there she had been again , almost packed to make way for Mr Martin 's wife , when once again fate had taken a hand , and now she was set nicely . |
| 12 | Cath Thompson , from the Traveller 's Rest , Cockerton , said the meeting had taken a step forward as Inntrepreneur had agreed to negotiate rents . |
| 13 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 14 | But her body had taken a battering . |
| 15 | A wife whose husband had taken a girl out on a number of occasions would tell the counsellor , ‘ This time it 's different — they 've slept together . ’ |
| 16 | Your share price seemed to take a bit of a knock the other day when Roy made some comments about referring media conglomerates to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 17 | My wife wished to take a photograph of me leaning against it from uphill and I have to report that the stone proved not to be immovable and now rests at the bottom of the slope . |
| 18 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 19 | Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister . |
| 20 | But it was not until the next Sunday , October 28 , the day after another climber had taken a message to Navarradonda , that a small ground search was mounted . |
| 21 | When the traitor scum , the creatures of the Al Daawa al Islamiya , last tried to assassinate the Chairman , six of the Guard had been killed , the Colonel had taken a bullet to the stomach , but the Chairman had survived untouched . |
| 22 | OK , her relationship with her father had taken a dip since her mother 's death , but she still knew the man better than almost anyone else on earth . |
| 23 | The paper had taken a day to produce . |
| 24 | That was when the terror had taken a grip on her . |
| 25 | But the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , who once lived in the colony , said the governor had taken a series of moves which were supported in the territory and should be supported in Britain . |
| 26 | And if People magazine wanted to take a picture of me in the surf with a stuffed animal , or whatever the fuck it was , then hey , the joke 's on them . ’ |
| 27 | In the end the man agreed to take a loan of two shillings , and John 's card , and he promised to send repayment when he was next in funds . |
| 28 | A fitted wardrobe is based on a front frame , located around 600mm ( the minimum depth needed to take a coat hanger ) from the back wall . |
| 29 | He said a man had taken a lunge at him and he had fallen to the ground . |
| 30 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |