Example sentences of "[vb past] take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to take Grand Met to a tribunal but they refused . |
| 3 | But he never tried to take any food from the other children . |
| 4 | And they 've taken the free kick quickly and tried to take full advantage of the situation and the referee has said you ca n't do that . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 6 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 7 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 8 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 9 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 10 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 11 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 12 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 15 | As he prepared to take full advantage of the situation he suddenly recalled a horrible memory . |
| 16 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 17 | He seemed to take great delight in taking the church for a ride . |
| 18 | Though interested in nature , I was still frightened by the demands of the Great Beast and hung back , watching jealously how the coquettish Lady Francesca seemed to take great interest in Benjamin but remained impervious to my own presence . |
| 19 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 20 | I wish he seemed to take more interest in life generally . |
| 21 | Tony reversed his car and turned to take another look at the theatre — there was nothing there . |
| 22 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 23 | Taken together , Carter 's handling of economic affairs , the hostage crisis and foreign policy in general combined to give him ‘ the lowest job approval ratings of any president since Gallup began taking these measurements in the 1940s ’ . |
| 24 | When Napoleon wrested the Slovene lands and Dalmatia from Austria , and established the Illyrian Provinces in 1809 , France began to take major interest in Balkan affairs . |
| 25 | As the Soviets became involved in a long struggle with Afghan guerrillas , similar in some respects to America 's involvement in Vietnam , Carter began to take punitive measures against Moscow but without fully consulting his NATO allies . |
| 26 | So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously . |
| 27 | In this reply the United States undertook to take certain action at the request of either or both of the parties in the event of an actual or threatened violation of the agreement , and thus guaranteed the continued observance of the Peace Treaty . |
| 28 | On March 5 the police department undertook to take tough action against the country 's top criminal " godfathers " ( chao phor ) . |
| 29 | On Saturday 16 February SPAG decided to take legal proceedings against Mogul , as they feared the company would continue to do nothing to rectify the situation . |
| 30 | He subsequently decided to take holy orders in the Church of England and in 1836 entered St David 's College , Lampeter . |