Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
| 2 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 3 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
| 4 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 5 | I thought it was a damn silly place to park if someone wanted to take a leak in the bushes . |
| 6 | ‘ Somebody had to take a stand . |
| 7 | If one wanted to take a sample of soldiers in a particular brigade simple random sampling could mean finding a large number of individual soldiers randomly across their various units . |
| 8 | She stabbed a book with a dangerous index finger , and took herself back to her desk , to survey her class and see that no-one had taken a whiff of pot while her attention had been distracted . |