Example sentences of "who [vb past] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 2 | Even those who did take legal action received little advantage from it . |
| 3 | Mum-of-two Eileen , who had to take two intensive training courses , stresses that Reiki has no religious connotations and is not the same as faith-healing . |
| 4 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 5 | His mother , who had taken one look at the place when she first returned to France , had been firm . |
| 6 | Of the 10 patients who had taken oral contraceptives , only one developed gall stone recurrence but neither of the two patients taking hormone replacement treatment developed recurrent stones . |
| 7 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 8 | Equally , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) of those who had taken temporary jobs because these provided a source of training had entered the labour market only in the past I 2 months . |
| 9 | Greig ( v Pak , Headingley , 1974 ) , A.J. Lamb ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) , A Shrewsbury ( v Aust , Sydney , 1887–88 ) and F.E. Woolley ( v Aust , Sydney , 1911–12 ) ; those who had taken four in an innings before are : L.C. Braund ( v Aust , Sheffield , 1902 and v Aust , Sydney , 1907–08 ) , A.P.F . |
| 10 | One feels constantly sorry for this randy but unsatisfied old man ( Cynthia Payne 's Streatham ménage was made for people like him ) who had taken sleeping tablets every night for decades and toyed frequently with suicide . |
| 11 | Many of the first group , it can be presumed , were married women , while some were teenagers who had taken part-time temporary jobs whilst still at school . |
| 12 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 13 | No action was taken against the newspaper , however , and one journalist , who had taken legal advice himself over the story , steadfastly maintained that he had quoted Nick Clayton 's comments completely accurately . |
| 14 | When Charles took Corsica and Sardinia , he drove out Saracens who had taken these islands , in tum , from the East Romans . |
| 15 | Friends then , the three of us — me sitting in the back of the old Countryman as it rattled along , Edward at the wheel singing Verdi as though he 'd just found the key to the Hermetic Mystery if not that of the aria he 'd chosen , while Laura , who had taken some persuading , groaned and laughed beside him . |
| 16 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 17 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 18 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 19 | On 19 February 1804 Brigadier Engineer Reynaldo Oudinot , a Frenchman who had taken Portuguese nationality , arrived in Funchal to look into the problems of flooding in the city . |
| 20 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 21 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |