Example sentences of "they have taken [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 2 | no my wallet and some one handed it in and they 'd taken a fiver out of it , they 'd gone , oh , oh |
| 3 | They 'd taken a ballot and the members had agreed . |
| 4 | They 'd taken no notice of Thérèse reporting that the Bishop expected only a simple meal . |
| 5 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 6 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 7 | Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas . |
| 8 | When we got back , they 'd taken the carpet and some of the furniture away . |
| 9 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 10 | even though they 'd taken the car . |
| 11 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 12 | Now they 've taken a plunge into the dive computer market and the outcome is the DataMax Sport . |
| 13 | Well th they , they 're used to selling cheapy stuff , they do n't know if they can sell this , they 've taken a couple on |
| 14 | They 've taken a print of Hugo 's Amex , but I do n't somehow think he 's on good personal terms with them , and you know how tight everyone is on expenses , these days . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other . |
| 16 | I was being suppressed by Central Authorities for so long , but now they 've taken the lid off . |
| 17 | They 've taken the body over to the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 18 | The aliens have stolen the key ; and now they 've taken the spaceship . |
| 19 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 20 | They 've taken the John 's quite good , really take the |
| 21 | ‘ They 've taken the cork out now . ’ |
| 22 | They had taken no precautions . |
| 23 | At the end of those ten minutes , though , they had taken a turn to the right , then one to the left , and it was apparent that Naylor knew his way around the area . |
| 24 | She described liquidators Cork Gully as ‘ corpse snatchers ’ and said it was unfair that they had taken a total of £7.9m in expenses over 10 years . |
| 25 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 26 | Then , entering Henry 's land once more , they had taken a couple of fences in good style and returned home in excellent spirits , congratulating each other warmly . |
| 27 | Lou Macari , the West Ham manager , was reported to have said it was impossible to control players once they had taken the field . |
| 28 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 29 | So the reports had been true : they had taken the Pratzen , and split the allied army in two . |
| 30 | Urbina said they had taken the embassy in protest against President Violeta Chamorro 's policy of allowing left-wing Sandinistas to retain control of the police and army after she had beaten them in elections in 1990. — AP |