Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 2 | In 1985 , they proposed to extend their role beyond that of an annual dining club for officers who had taken a degree through the police college scheme . |
| 3 | It had been a fairly commonplace murder , a henpecked husband at the end of his tether who had taken a hatchet to his virago of a wife . |
| 4 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 5 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 6 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |