Example sentences of "taken a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have taken a stand for freedom against tyranny . |
| 2 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 3 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
| 4 | I mean he 's not taken a turn for the worse or anything ? ’ |
| 5 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 6 | Now the weather has taken a turn for the worse we realise we need to heat it . |
| 7 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 8 | The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse . |
| 9 | In fact , he said , since the treaty was negotiated , the outlook for European economies had taken a turn for the worse and national problems now loomed large on the domestic agenda , causing people 's perceptions about the treaty to change . |
| 10 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 11 | Life had taken a turn for the better . |
| 12 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 13 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 14 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 15 | But this morning all that had been forgotten because the budgerigar had taken a turn for the worse . |
| 16 | She had taken a craving for the sight of green grass . |
| 17 | Sun Microsystems Inc has taken a licence for Digital 's Tools ' key project planning product AutoPlan , for internal use . |
| 18 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 19 | the first time I 've taken a pill for years and years and she said , my taste and my smell |
| 20 | I moved back to Edinburgh too because er my er my family had taken a yearning for Edinburgh , they did n't like East Kilbride so I says left . |
| 21 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 22 | It 's taken a year for Central to bring the show to our screens from the first talks with Tom in the USA . |
| 23 | It 's taken a year for this window to be repaired and replaced . |
| 24 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 25 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |
| 26 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 27 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 28 | Well , considering the security here in Great Britain , I hope that they have taken a precaution for that , but then we 're dealing with a person who does not go by the book . |