Example sentences of "they [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 2 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 3 | They 'd taken this information back . |
| 4 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 5 | The Gotobeds were bad owners , you see ; our dad was killed by a rock fall that would never have happened , Mr Evans says , if they 'd taken proper safety precautions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the current recession gripped , they decided to take evasive action . |
| 8 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 9 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 10 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 11 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 12 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |
| 13 | They had taken professional risks , had survived personal disasters . |
| 14 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 15 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 16 | They had taken several houses when the Troop officer — Captain Johnny Giles — was working his way room by room through another . |