Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] take [det] " in BNC.

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1 The nine-race card at Haydock is strong on quantity but lacks runners of the class of Old Vic , the winner of the Whitebeam Maiden Stakes by six lengths last year who went on to take this year 's Irish Derby and its French equivalent .
2 I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on .
3 The mean extent of gastric metaplasia in 39 patients who were treated continuously ( >1 year ) with H 2 receptor antagonists was 19% ( range 0–88% ) and 15% ( range 0–88% ) in 53 patients who did not take these drugs .
4 IN A LITTER of sleeping bags on the floor of the Gethsemane Church in East Berlin , Irene Schwidurski , who had not taken any solid food for four days , was trying to explain her reasons to a Western journalist , with the help of a pocket dictionary .
5 Her father had been a tight-lipped rather unloving man who had apparently taken little interest in Doreen .
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