Example sentences of "had taken [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 2 | The PLO , of course , saw its often murderous operations as a sacred duty ; they were fighting the occupying power that had taken away the land of the Palestinians . |
| 3 | I blamed Hilda for it , I felt she had taken away the gamble , the risk that made it worth while . |
| 4 | Bruce , a second-hand dealer for 15 years , said he had taken away the items in a van but returned the next day because he wanted to buy a chest of drawers . |
| 5 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 6 | The London buses by this time had taken on the look of the more modern style and were being driven by diesel engines , also they were capable of carrying as many as fifty-six passengers . |
| 7 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 8 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 9 | Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion . |
| 10 | For some , the fist was an alternative to the stick , especially where a conflict with a buck had taken on the form of a personal feud . |
| 11 | Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls . |
| 12 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 13 | Sarah 's voice had taken on the tone of an interrogation . |
| 14 | No-one cared how long we had taken on the route . |
| 15 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 16 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
| 17 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 18 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 19 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
| 20 | After the resignation of John St Luce as Finance Minister on Feb. 22 , the Prime Minister had taken on the Finance portfolio himself and presented the 1991 budget to Parliament on March 7 , giving only an outline of the proposals instead of a detailed budget speech . |
| 21 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |
| 22 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 23 | It also demanded a change in the way in which the government was appointed ( the Fifth Congress having given the President the power to appoint ministers ) and a new Prime Minister in place of Yeltsin , who had taken on the post himself in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 24 | President Boris Yeltsin had taken on the premiership in October [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 25 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 26 | The chanting had taken on the form of animal howls and disgusting collections of words screamed out by the blood-frenzied mob . |
| 27 | It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) . |
| 28 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 29 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 30 | Now another siren had taken up the warning . |