Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind had taken more of my energy than it saved , and without the sail , the wheelbarrow was much easier to control . |
| 2 | The Queen had taken little or no interest in the appointment when the informal suggestion of Admiral Bryson came from Downing Street in 1989 . |
| 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 | The Commission had taken much of its case from the evidence of the BBFC , differing only in proposing that the private exhibition of films on domestic occasions should not be subject to criminal sanction provided that no person under 16 was present and no charge was made for the exhibition or for anything provided in connection with it . |
| 5 | At Maidstone , where the company had moved from Reading , a maid-servant had seen Drew frantically trying to remove a stain from his jacket ; the operation had taken half an hour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We should pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) , who produced a proper , comprehensive mortgage rescue package long before the Government considered taking any of their panic measures . |
| 8 | The government appeared to take little interest in the schemes of the Family Endowment Society . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Direktor had taken such a chance on her . |
| 11 | ‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’ |