Example sentences of "they [vb past] take [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 2 | They 'd taken this information back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 5 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 6 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |
| 7 | They had taken several houses when the Troop officer — Captain Johnny Giles — was working his way room by room through another . |