Example sentences of "[noun prp] had take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Credit agencies in the United States had taken a hammering , and people on the lists were now entitled to a report annually or on demand . |
| 2 | The United States had taken the initiative in this development , since it appeared the only means by which the Americans could disengage gradually from Korea with some hope that the UN could produce a solution that would sustain south Korea for at least a limited period . |
| 3 | The historian Cassius Dio , a contemporary of that period , related how Albinus had taken an army to Gaul to face Severus . |
| 4 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 5 | Mexico had taken the initiative for this round of talks and had indicated that it would like to see an agreement signed within a year , although ministers were careful not to commit themselves to deadlines . |
| 6 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 7 | I had to , Richard had taken the car , he takes it in the morning , but |
| 8 | It had received an influx of lawyers from Rome when the Normans had taken the city in 1084 . |
| 9 | On the Friday before his parents death , Christopher Gore had taken a train from Bath — where he was living — to Chippenham station . |
| 10 | The Sergeant could not but have noted how Lexandro had taken the lead … |
| 11 | Mrs. Hammond had taken the document out to California for Mr. Steed to execute . |
| 12 | Burnley had taken the lead in the 13th minute when Adrian Heath capitalised on a dreadful clearance by Town keeper Tom Clarke , slipping the ball past Clarke before slotting into the empty net . |
| 13 | Rebecque looked up into Sharpe 's tired and dust-stained face and wondered just how Sharpe had taken a prisoner , but he knew this was no time for foolish questions . |
| 14 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 15 | And this after Blackburn had taken the lead in the first half with a goal from Mike who 's since reduced the arrears to three two with a second goal from the penalty spot . |
| 16 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 17 | By the time the interval beckoned , Celtic had taken a grip on the game in midfield . |
| 18 | On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused . |
| 19 | Fellow workers told the inquest Michael Grant had taken a welding kit onto the tank when he started work on it . |
| 20 | For the first month of her life Mrs MacDonagh had taken the baby into her own house , along with Eleanor 's eighteen-month-old brother Patrick , and she had bottle fed the baby and kept an eye on her brother amidst the debris of her own life and the squalor of her enormous family . |
| 21 | In the move between the last position and this , a number of the Jocks had taken the opportunity to make a hot drink , and as the chill of early morning crept into them , the sweet tea lifted their morale . |
| 22 | Rehearsals started on 27 July , and Martin Browne had taken the precaution of advising the cast not to ask the author to elucidate any of the dialogue ; one actress disregarded the advice and asked Eliot what one of her lines meant . |
| 23 | But in the meantime Louis had taken a step back by withdrawing his consent to the betrothal of Richard and Alice . |
| 24 | By the 1820s , Day had taken a partner , Davis . |
| 25 | When one of his blackboards fell onto his foot because Endill had taken the screws from it , he refused to let the class leave until he had discovered the culprit . |
| 26 | The court heard that Stephen had taken an overdose of paracetamol tablets 12 months earlier . |
| 27 | With research in mind and with the aid of a fellowship , in 1940 , Williams had taken a journey to the Caribbean where he visited Cuba , Haiti , Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic . |
| 28 | But the opportunity had not arisen , and Aldrich had taken no initiative in effecting any introduction . |
| 29 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 30 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |