Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 2 | to take cough and things like , and I nearly died the other night , I 'd taken one and I 'd taken some of this cough , |
| 3 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 4 | She had told Robert that she hated him , told him to go away , to move to another area , and he had taken that literally . |
| 5 | I had said , in revulsion at the intimacy his words implied , that he could do what he liked , I did n't care ; and he had taken this as evidence of a previously unsuspected sophistication in me . |
| 6 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 7 | ‘ He knew and he refused to take any part . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , but I thought Take That was for twelve year olds . |
| 9 | But you had to take all that worry that |
| 10 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 11 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 12 | But it did take some time . |