Example sentences of "had taken [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie sat in the carriage of a train bound for Edinburgh and thought about the actions he had taken during the past four days . |
| 2 | Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades . |
| 3 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 4 | She too had taken to the new helper . |
| 5 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 6 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 7 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 8 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 9 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 10 | At Better Books Miles had taken in the mimeographed magazines . |
| 11 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 12 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |