Example sentences of "he [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 2 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 3 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 4 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 5 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 6 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 7 | He 'd taken another cigarette ! |
| 8 | At quarter to eleven her old friend Jerry , the Valium addict , wandered in complaining of stomach pains and said he 'd taken another overdose . |
| 9 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |
| 10 | I wish he seemed to take more interest in life generally . |
| 11 | So he determined to take that too . |
| 12 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 13 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 14 | Neil , ’ I said , urgently , ‘ he did take this picture tonight , and whatever he took it for , it 's got to mean he 'll be coming back for it , and soon . |
| 15 | It is believed he may have left home of his own choice as he did take some of his clothes , but there have been no reports of him trying to leave the country . |
| 16 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 17 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |
| 18 | ‘ If he had taken that product , he would also have tested positive those other days as well , ’ Grollet said . |
| 19 | Once he had taken that view he abdicated , albeit unconsciously , his responsibility to rule on the submissions made . |
| 20 | She had told Robert that she hated him , told him to go away , to move to another area , and he had taken that literally . |
| 21 | She could not bear to think that he had taken all that pure wrathful zeal into marketing or insurance broking . |
| 22 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 23 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 24 | He had taken all his oaths as a journeyman agent . |
| 25 | For his defence , he would have to rely on one of the defences in section 24 ( paragraph 16–22 below ) , which would involve showing that he had taken all reasonable steps ( to withdraw the brochure etc. ) to avoid committing the offence . |
| 26 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 27 | Vaguely he wished that he had taken more interest in old science . |
| 28 | He had taken this attitude himself , but was finding it very uncomfortable to maintain , after his long years of quiet in the bush , untroubled by anything worse than wind or weather . |
| 29 | I had said , in revulsion at the intimacy his words implied , that he could do what he liked , I did n't care ; and he had taken this as evidence of a previously unsuspected sophistication in me . |
| 30 | Christopher — more talkative than usual — was animated in his description of the Highlands , where he had taken several long walks with Alastair . |