Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the board to take the initiative in asking for a League inquiry , hoping that in return the sentence would be a light one . |
| 2 | Lack of any firm action by the police even led the Board to take the whole issue to the High Court . |
| 3 | And then he took the soap from her , and made her stand still under the pummelling water , while very slowly he soaped her , and used the flannel to take the soap away . |
| 4 | Bramwell , like his father , found the Army took the main portion of his time and concern . |
| 5 | This Ketamine user reported no desire to take the drug again . |
| 6 | In rcording a verdict of accidental death the coroner Nicholas Gardiner said what caused the driver to take the action he died will never be known . |
| 7 | The imperial and defence campaigns perhaps did something to prepare the nation for war and they certainly prepared the parry to take the lead when war did come in 1914 . |
| 8 | Cae Glas , who travel to Much Wenlock , are waiting on the fitness of Mike Broadbent who injured a finger taking the match winning catch against Hanwood last Saturday . |
| 9 | Many thanks to Miss Cameron , who came every day to take the cash , to Kirsty and Pippa who were a delight to have , and to all who helped to make it such a happy week and so worthwhile for Christian Aid ’ . |
| 10 | Pinchbeck 's return coincided with the 10th anniversary of Magnus production and he welcomed the opportunity to take the asset through a critical phase of its field life second time around . |
| 11 | Prosecutor Paul Chadd QC , claimed the trio took the girls to a deserted barn at the farm for sex . |
| 12 | Such complacency allowed the Alliance to take the initiative temporarily . |
| 13 | When she made no move to take the rosebud , Guy tucked it into one of the mail links on his hauberk and captured her hand before she could withdraw it again . |
| 14 | She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets . |
| 15 | Bartocci made no attempt to take the paper . |
| 16 | She made a move to take the glass . |
| 17 | Chloe , nine , Leo , seven , and Greg , four , are all keen followers of their father 's career , so how would he react if one of them expressed a wish to take the wheel ? |
| 18 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 19 | In the majority of cases the conveyance will be a motor car and the ‘ taking ’ is proved by a witness stating that he saw the defendant take the car , or by an admission to that effect by the defendant . |
| 20 | The match between Wilkinson and Ivanisevic saw the Briton take the sting out of the giant Croat 's fearsome serve with some brilliant returns . |
| 21 | Dexter sometimes thought the superintendent took the need to be polite to the public too far . |
| 22 | But since she was comfortable and occupied she felt no need to take the advantage of her freedom . |
| 23 | Mother Francis felt an urge to take the child in her arms as she used to do when Eve was a baby given into their care by the accident of her birth . |
| 24 | Only after 1922 , with the war at last receding from memory and coalition over , did the party take the decisions that led to its successes of the next twenty years . |
| 25 | There was even a tow-ball , for which we bought a carrier to take the bike . |
| 26 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on April 20 issued a decree taking the authorization of demonstrations and other public gatherings in the centre of Moscow out of the jurisdiction of the Moscow city soviet and passing it to the USSR Council of Ministers . |
| 27 | From the restart , 'Mere won a scrum and Smith fed a crash ball to Godwin who broke his tackle and rounded the fullback to take the score to 10–3 . |
| 28 | Each of them had the chance to take the controls and fly the glider 8010 — just for a while , before the pilot brought the plane gently back to earth . |
| 29 | ‘ Unfortunately , the company 's proposal was rejected twice by its hourly-payed employees which forced the company to take the action it did in hiring new employees . ’ |
| 30 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |