Example sentences of "they [vb past] take [det] " 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 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 5 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 6 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 7 | Well I strange erm accusation yes we will be , we would keep the council tax down if I am that that would be a popular message to give out and so having accepted our below er the guideline figures they did take this into consideration but we have a budget that has elements of growth in industry . |
| 8 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had taken all she had , and nobody did that to a woman of Liverpool and got away with it . |
| 12 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 13 | and general behaviour we was really a lot improved because erm they had taken all their normal food like Mars bars and stuff like that and replaced it with like healthy food and er all the coke machines they replaced with like fresh fruit drinks . |
| 14 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |
| 15 | But by midday they had taken most of it and had begun to dig in . |
| 16 | They had taken several houses when the Troop officer — Captain Johnny Giles — was working his way room by room through another . |
| 17 | Burrows stated that they had taken some seventy statements that night and he could not remember the Wells document . |