Example sentences of "had taken [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government ‘ had taken powers to establish a loans scheme by diktat . ’ |
| 2 | Georgia had taken pills to settle her stomach , but she was still throwing up every hour . |
| 3 | She had taken pains to arrive only just in time . |
| 4 | The resources of the Communications Compound would be stretched to the limit , sending instantaneous pictures by satellite to destinations which Marco Polo and Captain Cook had taken years to reach . |
| 5 | ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’ |
| 6 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
| 7 | In Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon the creditors had acted responsibly in that they had taken steps to ensure that the elderly parents received independent legal advice and , as appears from the closing sentence of the extract of Oliver L.J . 's judgment just cited , they were entitled when they received in return documents apparently executed in the presence of such a solicitor to accept those documents and act upon them . |
| 8 | It marked the first occasion on which the UK had taken steps to grant political asylum to a refugee from another Western country . |
| 9 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 10 | But she was dead … as was her killer , who had taken weeks to die of Carrefour 's poison . |
| 11 | It had taken weeks to sort things out . |