Example sentences of "was [verb] to take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas .
2 ‘ But I told him I was going to take legal action , ’ she says .
3 Dennis Mitchell , an intelligence officer at GCHQ for 32 years , was compelled to take early retirement because he had argued against the introduction of polygraph tests and the removal of rights of employees to go to industrial tribunals .
4 Two months ago Amnesty submitted testimony to the UN which noted that the de Klerk government ‘ was failing to take adequate steps to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces implicated in the torture and killing of government opponents ’ .
5 Bhishma Narain Singh , a senior Congress ( I ) leader , was then appointed as Governor of Tamil Nadu , while the Uttar Pradesh Governor , B. Satya Narain Reddy , was appointed to take additional charge of Bihar .
6 Before the war , he had been one of the most prominent members of the Dock workers ' Guild , acting as principal deputy to their father , the Chairman , but after he was disabled and discharged from the army , he was forced to take other work , helping Florrie to run their Aunt Emily 's corner grocery shop .
7 The SEC was proposing to take legal action against several Florida citizens over their alleged involvement with Pilgrim Venture .
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