Example sentences of "who [vb past] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 2 | Even those who did take legal action received little advantage from it . |
| 3 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 4 | His mother , who had taken one look at the place when she first returned to France , had been firm . |
| 5 | Of the 10 patients who had taken oral contraceptives , only one developed gall stone recurrence but neither of the two patients taking hormone replacement treatment developed recurrent stones . |
| 6 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 7 | Equally , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) of those who had taken temporary jobs because these provided a source of training had entered the labour market only in the past I 2 months . |
| 8 | One feels constantly sorry for this randy but unsatisfied old man ( Cynthia Payne 's Streatham ménage was made for people like him ) who had taken sleeping tablets every night for decades and toyed frequently with suicide . |
| 9 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 10 | No action was taken against the newspaper , however , and one journalist , who had taken legal advice himself over the story , steadfastly maintained that he had quoted Nick Clayton 's comments completely accurately . |
| 11 | When Charles took Corsica and Sardinia , he drove out Saracens who had taken these islands , in tum , from the East Romans . |
| 12 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 13 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 14 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 15 | On 19 February 1804 Brigadier Engineer Reynaldo Oudinot , a Frenchman who had taken Portuguese nationality , arrived in Funchal to look into the problems of flooding in the city . |
| 16 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |