Example sentences of "[noun prp] had taken a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheila Rowbotham had taken a different route after graduation from Oxford in 1962 . |
| 2 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 3 | As at Lord 's , it was Logie and Dujon who got the runs , but with Foster taking 5 for 64 they were all out for 183 , the first time England had taken a first-innings lead since the Lord 's game of 1984 . |
| 4 | The Shah had taken a leading role in this process . |
| 5 | The third file concerned a boy Berdichev had taken a personal interest in ; a Clayborn child from the Recruitment Project for whom Berdichev had paid the extraordinary sum of ten million yuan . |
| 6 | The previous year the NAM had taken a direct initiative over the war when India 's prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , acting as NAM chairman , sent a peace mission to the Gulf . |
| 7 | The reason for our excursion was that , back in the USA , Beth had taken a leading role in one of the films now showing . |
| 8 | Late in May Andy Norman had taken a small party of athletes to Oslo for a meeting . |
| 9 | But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets . |
| 10 | Now Jezrael saw that Zulei had taken a short blade from the coiffure . |
| 11 | The stomach contents and blood tests indicate Mr Marr had taken a fair amount of drink immediately prior to his death on Friday night . ’ |
| 12 | The confrontation between Israeli forces and Hamas had taken a fresh turn earlier on Dec. 13 , when Qassam abducted Sgt.-Maj . |
| 13 | Stopping short of direction intervention , Carter had taken a firm line . |
| 14 | This was the occasion for further expressions of friendship on the part of the two sovereigns , for Queen Victoria had taken a personal interest in the Empress 's accouchement and had sent Lady Ely , one of her ladies-in-waiting , to be present at the birth . |
| 15 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 16 | Sometimes in the summer Paul had taken a bright wooden boat on a string and floated it there , beating at the water 's edge with a fan of leaves to make waves . |
| 17 | In a report to the 15th conference of the Kosovo LC on Nov. 9 , 1989 , Rahman Morina , its president , said that the struggle in Kosovo had taken a new turn and accused people of trying to encourage processes aimed at destroying Yugoslavia and at changing its federal system . |
| 18 | At the inquest , pathologist , Dr Ian Buley said Henry had taken a high dose of LSD . |