Example sentences of "he [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 2 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 3 | He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now . |
| 4 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 5 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 6 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 7 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 8 | He failed to take a wicket at Sydney in the next Test , and helped Gibbs to a reciprocal three wickets in four balls by falling to the first he received . |
| 9 | In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan . |
| 10 | He admitted taking the car without consent , driving while unfit through drink , without insurance and unaccompanied by a qualified motorist , and failing to report an accident . |
| 11 | When furious Mia confronted Allen , he admitted taking the photos — but DENIED having an affair with Soon-Yi . |
| 12 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 13 | He moved to take the figure to twenty . |
| 14 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 15 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 16 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 17 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 18 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 19 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 20 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 21 | But since the arrival of Robins , he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman . |
| 22 | An importer or wholesaler will not be able to rely on this defence if he has taken no steps to require his supplier to supply goods which correspond with the relevant legal requirements . |
| 23 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 24 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 25 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 26 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 27 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |
| 28 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 29 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 30 | For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break . |