Example sentences of "taken a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duggan has taken a ski-ing holiday in the United States while the tricky negotiations were taking place this weekend . |
| 2 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 3 | Later the mother , having taken a housekeeping job where she could have the child with her , wrote to the father to let her have the child and the £1 per week . |
| 4 | Peterborough weathered the storm and could have taken a shock lead after 31 minutes . |
| 5 | Most will have taken a Foundation course in Art and Design , but applicants from a wide range of backgrounds are welcome , including those applying direct from sixth forms . |
| 6 | Naturally gifted as he was , the Japanese boy had never taken a golf lesson . |
| 7 | He would have liked to have taken a doggy bag to restaurants and collar extras he could n't quite fit in , like garlic bread , crusty granary rolls and After Eights . |
| 8 | He had taken a phone call from Gabriel , half wishing it was Rose Hilaire , but wanting to feel loyal to Gaby . |
| 9 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 10 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 11 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 12 | PACE has taken a charity stall on nearby Aylesbury Market , but it needs all the help it can get . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's given her notice to leave , taken a living-in job in Skipton . |
| 14 | Margaret had taken a living-in job in the country where she could have Molly with her . |
| 15 | Staff have taken a pay cut . |
| 16 | B has also taken a washing machine which cost £200 and which had a selling price of £280 from the business for personal use . |
| 17 | Fellow workers told the inquest Michael Grant had taken a welding kit onto the tank when he started work on it . |
| 18 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
| 19 | But since the arrival of Robins , he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman . |
| 20 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 21 | Are we still investigatory stage , or have we taken a policy decision that we will purchase this ground ? unclear at the moment , is n't it ? |
| 22 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 23 | What had happened was that Mark James , playing with Nicklaus , had missed the green , shanked his chip right across the green , and then taken a train ride to get the putt for a four . |
| 24 | Lewin , of Toxteth , who had never taken a driving test and was already banned for stealing cars , admitted manslaughter . |
| 25 | Erm , the carol festivals are on and there 's one at Thaxted , which might be quite nice , actually , erm it 's on the same page , the previous column And someone 's just taken a driving test at ninety one . |
| 26 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 27 | So what if I 've taken a jazz classic and clubbed it up ? |
| 28 | ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other . |
| 29 | The reported number of people known to have HIV only includes those who have taken a blood test , and is therefore only likely to be a small proportion of the total number infected . |
| 30 | As a Labour councillor of a rural part of Leicestershire , a very beautiful po part of rural Leicestershire erm I 've taken a straw poll amongst my farming friends and er when I talk about fox hunting they er roll and shrug their shoulders , there 's no problem and if fox hunting is er part of the culling process , they do n't have a problem . |