Example sentences of "they have taken the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got back , they 'd taken the carpet and some of the furniture away . |
| 2 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 3 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 4 | Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas . |
| 5 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 6 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 7 | even though they 'd taken the car . |
| 8 | They 've taken the body over to the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 9 | They 've done it , they 've taken the outside tables away . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've taken the cork out now . ’ |
| 11 | And they 've taken the free kick quickly and tried to take full advantage of the situation and the referee has said you ca n't do that . |
| 12 | The aliens have stolen the key ; and now they 've taken the spaceship . |
| 13 | whilst they 've taken the |
| 14 | I was being suppressed by Central Authorities for so long , but now they 've taken the lid off . |
| 15 | They 've taken the John 's quite good , really take the |
| 16 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 17 | They had taken the lead after two minutes with a simple move that found the Oxford defence in disarray . |
| 18 | Lou Macari , the West Ham manager , was reported to have said it was impossible to control players once they had taken the field . |
| 19 | What , McLeish wondered acerbically , did he imagine his wife and surviving daughter were thinking about — or did he assume they had taken the death of a daughter and a sister in their stride ? |
| 20 | Richard Rowntree , the chairman of the bench , told Mr Smith that if they had taken the view that the ill treatment of his stock had been deliberate , their decision would have been a lot different . |
| 21 | The year before they had taken the League title for the third time running , becoming the second , and last , club to do the hat-trick , after a season that saw Highbury 's record crowd — 73,295 for the game against Sunderland in March 1935 . |
| 22 | So the reports had been true : they had taken the Pratzen , and split the allied army in two . |
| 23 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 24 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 25 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 26 | The pressure was becoming too much for him , and though at first they had taken the challenge with both hands , and had almost made a joke of it , now the months of confinement and running , running and confinement , the eternal hiding , were beginning to take their toll of his spirit . |
| 27 | What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong ! |
| 28 | They had taken the brunt of battle during the war against Chaos and yet they were reviled by their fellows . |
| 29 | They had taken the strictest measures to ensure that the Project remained not merely ‘ invisible ’ in terms of its security profile , but that , in the unlikely event of sabotage , there would be copies of everything . |
| 30 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |