Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 2 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 3 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 4 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 5 | Nora 's virtual command , reinforced by her petulant departure , had no bearing — except that she had taken all the pleasure out of it for him . |
| 6 | ‘ I simply told them that you were my wife and that you had taken all our money and our little girl and were running off to London to be with your lover . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 9 | Burrows stated that they had taken some seventy statements that night and he could not remember the Wells document . |
| 10 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 11 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 12 | He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour . |
| 13 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 14 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 15 | She could not bear to think that he had taken all that pure wrathful zeal into marketing or insurance broking . |
| 16 | For his defence , he would have to rely on one of the defences in section 24 ( paragraph 16–22 below ) , which would involve showing that he had taken all reasonable steps ( to withdraw the brochure etc. ) to avoid committing the offence . |
| 17 | Vaguely he wished that he had taken more interest in old science . |
| 18 | ’ Carco asked if he could buy a painting , ‘ The Standing Nude ’ , and Zbo was so overcome with emotion because Carco appreciated Modigliani that he refused to take any money for it . |