Example sentences of "taken [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I taken the latter course , the result might have been embarrassment rather than accident . |
| 2 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 3 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 4 | As soon as he 'd switched the light off , Zeno had taken the same route through the yard as Sophie had done a little earlier . |
| 5 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 7 | No tape recorder , no camera , questions strictly limited to her professional life , the right not to answer , the chance to okay quotes , no absurd leather trousers , accompanied at the interview by a trusted associate — if only her predecessors , who are equally distinguished publishers after all , had taken the same precautions . |
| 8 | On this question all social grades had taken the same line — the need to seize local gentry estates . |
| 9 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 11 | your dad usually finds he 's taken the same picture two or three times or more or less and |
| 12 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 13 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 14 | For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed . |
| 15 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 16 | I have taken a little time to sketch the history of paragraph 16.5 of Code C in order to show that it is not directly linked to the ancient and deep-rooted privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 17 | This would take place in view of the grandstands at 5.35 , after the players had checked their scores , signed their cards and taken a little time to compose themselves . |
| 18 | His re-creation — like the creating of Adam on the first day — had taken a little time . |
| 19 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 20 | Biopsy specimens taken a few cm distal to the splenic flexure and in the sigmoid colon were staiend with haematoxyline and eosin and were assessed blindly for the degree of inflammation . |
| 21 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
| 22 | He waited until she had obediently taken a few sips of the ale , before propping one knee on the bed beside her and jerking her face up to his . |
| 23 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |
| 24 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |
| 25 | They can be taken a few hours before sleep is required in the new time zone . |
| 26 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 27 | Yeah I was doing their printing for them and er I 've also taken a few shots for the Chronicle . |
| 28 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 29 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 30 | ‘ After I 've taken a few pictures . |