Example sentences of "he had taken a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 2 | He had taken a pace or two when something tugged at the shoulder of his coat . |
| 3 | He felt as he had in Oxford , the first time he had taken a girl out with a packet of French letters in his wallet . |
| 4 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 5 | The Mason came down out of his cart wearing God 's Creation robe because he had taken a fancy to its white ermine collar and the cabalistic sun , moon and stars embroidered front and back . |
| 6 | Once , as a guest of the Hacketts , he had taken a stroll through the rose garden with Jessica Hackett . |
| 7 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 8 | On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists . |
| 9 | Then , unexpectedly , he invited Brian and me to stay in Northumberland where he had taken a grouse moor for the summer ; thereafter we went each year until he died , first to Otterburn and then to Wark . |
| 10 | He had taken a container of 800 barbiturates from his pharmacy and 136 tablets were later recovered . |
| 11 | He had taken a bottle of cough mixture with him but it had n't helped much . |
| 12 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 13 | I was terrified that , while he had taken a branch off the piste towards the town , I might now be heading towards Mali , a waterless eight hundred miles away . |
| 14 | He had taken a sample of blood from the plump flaccid arm , feeling for the vein as carefully as if she could still flinch at the needle 's prick . |
| 15 | He had taken a phone call from Gabriel , half wishing it was Rose Hilaire , but wanting to feel loyal to Gaby . |
| 16 | He had taken a couple of square inches of rock cocaine from wherever he had hidden his supply and was chopping it with his knife on to Trent 's shaving mirror . |
| 17 | He had taken a couple of tablets of synthesized dope . |
| 18 | It was as though he had taken a drug , not one to make him hallucinate but one to end hallucination . |
| 19 | Since it was two-in-a-row time , he had taken a lot more precautions with this one . |
| 20 | He had taken a lot of trouble with his appearance this morning , Briant noticed , his heavy gray hair carefully slicked across his head , his knitted red tie carefully arranged against the collar of his pink shirt . |
| 21 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 22 | She had snipped , and he had taken a lock . |
| 23 | He had taken a picture of her after that and one of the animal cemetery . |
| 24 | ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim . |
| 25 | He had taken a sabbatical that autumn from the family business , opted for a life , or , more accurately , a few weeks , on the ocean wave . |
| 26 | From the wall above the fireplace he had taken a gun and shot Troy , who now lay very still . |
| 27 | He could n't stand the idea of going back to the section-house , so he had taken a series of private lodgings . |
| 28 | He had taken a step towards her . |
| 29 | In a moment the paper was back in its folder , and he had taken a step away from her . |
| 30 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |