Example sentences of "she [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 2 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 3 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 4 | She 'd taken some clothes , though scarcely enough , even for three days . |
| 5 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 6 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 7 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 8 | At the time she chose to take British citizenship , which was her right and elected to try to play for Britain . |
| 9 | By the time she dared take another look — this time squinting through almost closed eyes — the star 's appearance had completely changed . |
| 10 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
| 11 | She paused to take another sip of wine , conscious of Rune 's unremitting interest in her recital . |
| 12 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 13 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 14 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 15 | She had to take another look . |
| 16 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 17 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 18 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 19 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 20 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 21 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 22 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 23 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 24 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 25 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 26 | Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness . |
| 27 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 28 | She had taken 30 tranquilizers and drunk several glasses of sherry . |
| 29 | At last , after another million years persuading David she would be all right when she had taken some aspirin , she was alone , in her own flat . |
| 30 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |