Example sentences of "had taken the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband Richard , 33 , from Gosport , told Portsmouth Crown Court she had taken the money to repay debts . |
| 2 | On many occasions I asked Alf if he had taken the money to pay the debt but he never did ! |
| 3 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 4 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 5 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 6 | When he admitted his offence to the SFA , poor Willie told them he had taken the drug to alleviate hay fever . |
| 7 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 8 | Some of the members of our community had taken the decision to join the mass political organizations or the armed struggle but that was their personal choice and the community never expressed an opinion on the subject . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the great majority reckoned that they themselves had taken the decision to use a particular type of credit ( regardless of whether or not they had seriously considered any other type too ) . |
| 10 | I had taken the decision to leave him . |
| 11 | Whoever had taken the decision to commit the party to armed insurrection in 1930 , what was now to be called in question was whether the party had any right at all to make such decisions for itself . |
| 12 | Giovanna , smiling as she left , said that the bambina had never stirred and she had taken the opportunity to do a pile of ironing . |
| 13 | Her brother had taken the opportunity to entertain a large group of teenage friends while his parents were out of the country . |
| 14 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 15 | The court was told Terence Jowers had his own grievance against Mr Archer and had taken the opportunity to sort it out . |
| 16 | She had taken the opportunity to read so much about the social work of the Army she felt she knew the history , background , areas of special need inside out in theory . |
| 17 | Comfort had been in Paris for a fortnight , officially to sort out details of an exhibition of her paintings , and she had taken the opportunity to replenish her depleted wardrobe and see as many of her old friends as she could find . |
| 18 | He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation . |
| 19 | In the move between the last position and this , a number of the Jocks had taken the opportunity to make a hot drink , and as the chill of early morning crept into them , the sweet tea lifted their morale . |
| 20 | The Waltham Forest CHC not only was in disagreement with Mezey but also questioned the length of time it had taken the RHA to make time for a discussion of the report ( one year ) . |
| 21 | I was thrilled that someone as important as the Archbishop of Canterbury had taken the time to call me , although I could n't help but think it odd that an Archbishop was now leaving messages on the same answering machine as my mum . |
| 22 | Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son 's grave . |
| 23 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 24 | Ellwood wondered how the search for Tessa was going and how long it had taken the Department to close the story down . |
| 25 | Thankful that I had taken the trouble to gather dry wood while it was fine , I lighted the fire , and soon had a cheerful blaze going . |
| 26 | When he claimed in Book 12 that , contrary to Timaeus , he had taken the trouble to visit the lands of the Ligurians and of the Gauls , he was being true to the facts . |
| 27 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 28 | When she had taken the trouble to go to school , lessons had often been called off because someone had vandalized some necessary piece of equipment . |
| 29 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 30 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |