Example sentences of "she [vb past] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obviously had n't been willing : maybe she 'd taken offence and attacked him . |
| 2 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 3 | She could have been a dancer if she 'd taken lessons . |
| 4 | The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time . |
| 5 | She frowned as she began taking mugs from the cupboard . |
| 6 | She began taking A-levels while working as a secretary for the Commission for Racial Equality , and , urged on by an old Somervillian , wrote to Somerville . |
| 7 | Trained as a painter and textile designer , she began taking pictures with an old Instamatic . |
| 8 | She started taking stands at antique fairs in Kent , and at weekends or during school holidays the whole family plus dogs would go on expeditions to Wales , the West Country and East Anglia . |
| 9 | At the last moment she decided to take Sarah along , too . |
| 10 | Close though her friendship with Gary had become she had never once breathed a word to him about the new collections she saw taking shape at Mattli — and as for ‘ pillow talk ’ the notion was absurd . |
| 11 | She liked to take walks alone , and occasionally pretended she completely belonged in St James 's Park or Kensington and always had . |
| 12 | Lisabeth reluctantly agreed after I put her in charge of phoning the hospital for twice-daily reports , which was exactly the sort of thing she liked to take charge of . |
| 13 | But she had to take care . |
| 14 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 15 | And yet , now she had taken possession of ‘ La Felicità ’ , she no longer felt so much in awe of the absentee landlord as a half-amused curiosity about him . |
| 16 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 17 | Her last book , A Memoir of the Late Mrs. Henrietta Fordyce , was published anonymously in 1823 , evidently in an attempt to silence rumours that she had taken advantage of a generous elderly relative . |
| 18 | She had taken drugs ever since , but the cancer had returned . |
| 19 | She had taken Elizabeth home in the car , leaving Betty to explain to Finn whatever she saw fit . |
| 20 | Cook had been moved by Sarah 's grief when she got back from her father 's funeral , and when she heard how Maggie had given birth on the very same day she had taken pity . |
| 21 | It was only the second time she had taken part and this race , taking less than ten minutes , had been a particularly fast one , but as she said , it was a family tradition to take part in it and she had really enjoyed it . |
| 22 | ‘ There was a formal denial that she had taken part in anything which would discredit the Royal Family . |
| 23 | Then she had taken bread and cheese and coffee and started across Norfolk , giving , as she drove , some thought to the strategy best suited to extracting information from this Anglican priest in the Catholic wing . |
| 24 | WPC Susan Larkin , 24 , said she had taken cover in the footwell of her police car as bullets hit the vehicle . |
| 25 | This trick took hours of practice , up and down the landing at the hostel while the other girls looked at her as if she had taken leave of her senses . |
| 26 | Then , one morning , just as suddenly as she had taken leave of absence , she was back . |
| 27 | She had taken leave of her senses ! |
| 28 | These badges were handed out only on a nurse 's last day in the hospital , after she had taken State and Hospital Finals and accumulated a sheaf of satisfactory ward reports . |
| 29 | Gazzer felt pleased that she had taken things so well . |
| 30 | Likewise , various scurrilous attacks were made on Constanze 's honour , suggesting that during her frequent sojourns in Baden she had taken Mozart 's pupil Süssmayr as a lover , and that her last child ( who bore Süssmayr 's Christian names ) was his . |