Example sentences of "she [vb past] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 2 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 3 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 4 | She 'd taken some clothes , though scarcely enough , even for three days . |
| 5 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 6 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 7 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 8 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 9 | At the time she chose to take British citizenship , which was her right and elected to try to play for Britain . |
| 10 | By the time she dared take another look — this time squinting through almost closed eyes — the star 's appearance had completely changed . |
| 11 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
| 12 | She paused to take another sip of wine , conscious of Rune 's unremitting interest in her recital . |
| 13 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 14 | She had to take all the money in his wallet , she explained , because her ‘ business manager ’ would beat her up if she did n't turn in the profits . |
| 15 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 16 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 17 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 18 | She had to take another look . |
| 19 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 20 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 21 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 22 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 23 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 24 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 25 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 26 | Before Nicola Hammond had gone for her walk with Gunter Schmidt , she had taken all the money in her wallet and lined her bra with it . |
| 27 | Nora 's virtual command , reinforced by her petulant departure , had no bearing — except that she had taken all the pleasure out of it for him . |
| 28 | It had never been possible to go , even though she had taken Spanish as an extra at university . |
| 29 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 30 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |