Example sentences of "taken a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ridley had taken a course in biochemistry , and so was probably the person best equipped to pursue the matter , which turned out to be very difficult . |
| 2 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 3 | Those who have taken a course in German or French as a foreign language will already have some formal knowledge of that language . |
| 4 | But I have a gem of a nun who 's a wizard with a needle , and after she 'd taken a tuck in the waist and put two inches on the hem , they looked almost tailor-made . ’ |
| 5 | CU has taken a floor in another large City building , Plantation House , for key staff dealing in insurance markets to reduce the risk of disruption . |
| 6 | Wooster Gardens , a new gallery , has taken a floor in the building that houses Tom Cugliani and American Fine Arts and other new ventures — Penine-Hart , Sandra Gering and David Zwirner — have all recently opened their doors in SoHo . |
| 7 | She had taken a delight in reproaching Edith at every opportunity . |
| 8 | I know what I 've got the find , oh god it 's alright , I 've just taken a look in here it 's like a bomb ! |
| 9 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 10 | He was going back into the National Health Service and had taken a consultancy in a drug dependency unit based at the Lurie Foundation Hospital for Dipsomaniacs on Hampstead Road . |
| 11 | By now , at Virgin 's instigation , negotiations had taken a turn in another direction . |
| 12 | Similarly , one would like to see a state of affairs in which many more people read and enjoyed poetry than had taken a degree in it . |
| 13 | Darwin was far from being an atheist — he had , after all , taken a degree in divinity in Cambridge — but he was deeply puzzled by this enormous multiplicity of forms . |
| 14 | ‘ I know you 've taken a degree in textile design … ’ |
| 15 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 16 | Rory had been down home in the country all day long , working on some bad debt accounts with Tom Holdfast , so he and Mallachy had taken a couple in the Wellington Park to wash away the nasty taste of commerce . |
| 17 | She admires wealth-creators , entrepreneurs , and people who have taken a chance in the market rather than those who work in the public sector . |
| 18 | Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 . |
| 19 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 20 | German and Swedish trade unions have taken a role in the initiation of flexibility in the workplace , in the promoting of job enrichment through the broadening of job classifications . |
| 21 | One day he had taken a walk in the country , and had surprised two lovers in a wood . |
| 22 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 23 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 24 | This Conservative Government has taken a lead in working to protect the ozone layer . |
| 25 | The Scotch Whisky Industry has taken a lead in establishing company policies for identifying and providing treatment for employees with alcohol problems . |
| 26 | Many readers will have noted the fact that WWF-UK , in particular , have taken a lead in putting greater emphasis on developing relationships with the big aid agencies , including our own in Britain ( the ODA ) , the EEC , the World Bank and other development banks in the hope that the large sums of money which they have can be directed , at least in part , towards overcoming these substantial long-term difficulties . |
| 27 | In the wake of the successful Middlesbrough bid , TEC staff have taken a lead in one of the major strategies . |
| 28 | The Crown was in such a strong position in 1685 because Charles II , in his last years , had taken a stance in defence of the Church of England as by law established , and was able to exploit the anti-Nonconformist prejudices of the Anglicans . |
| 29 | Staff Nurse Edna Wilson has taken a diploma in aromatherapy — massage with exotic oils . |
| 30 | Staff Nurse Edna Wilson has taken a diploma in aromatherapy — massage with exotic oils . |