Example sentences of "[vb past] taken [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ E asked me to describe yer , which I did , thinkin' maybe 'e was goin' to tell yer you 'd come into some money , but 'e said you 'd taken in a young woman , that the pair of you 'ad nicked 'is wallet an' made off with it . |
| 2 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 3 | But the old bobby — he 'd downed his pint of beer — he got taken before the chief constable and he got a serious fine , £1 . |
| 4 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 5 | Charlie sat in the carriage of a train bound for Edinburgh and thought about the actions he had taken during the past four days . |
| 6 | Broomhead had managed partly to knock out the large dent in the horn but he had taken off a fair amount of paint in the process . |
| 7 | Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades . |
| 8 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 9 | She too had taken to the new helper . |
| 10 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 11 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 12 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 13 | What Tallis had taken for a forked beard she could see , now , were curved tusks of wood growing from each side of the round , wet mouth . |
| 14 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 15 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 16 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 17 | When landlords refused to open their granaries , he went with an army of tribal people to loot them , promising to return what they had taken in a better season . |
| 18 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 19 | At Better Books Miles had taken in the mimeographed magazines . |
| 20 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 21 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |