Example sentences of "[noun sg] ever take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood gets washed away in the morning so there 's no evidence to suggest a crime ever took place . |
| 2 | That was the last photograph ever taken of Simon and it was Bert 's most precious possession . |
| 3 | The decision to accord a full chapter to it in the Constitution on the Church , and prior to that on the hierarchy , was symbolically one of the most important the Council ever took . |
| 4 | If you read it , you read a clear , if unintended , exposition of why socialism is the most idiotic political creed ever taken seriously , and you could also discern a genuine , if sentimental , belief in the capacities of the people Labour was formed to represent , the British working class . |
| 5 | Indeed , Bob Wall believes that ‘ in many ways this was the most astute single decision ever taken by the club . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ One is the only original picture ever taken of him , the second shows him with a beard as well as his moustache , the third clean shaven . |
| 7 | 20.0 LEFT : The last picture ever taken of Brian , in his scout 's uniform . |
| 8 | Because Kate , for all her faults real and imagined , was the only person ever to take him at face value . |
| 9 | The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place . |
| 10 | The 1989–90 Whitbread was 33,000 miles long , the world 's longest and toughest yacht race ever to take place . |
| 11 | All that should be done is that , if that improbable and unlikely event ever takes place , the courts should decline to enforce the clause . |
| 12 | — We help young people in trouble and we also try to stop drugs and alcohol ever taking a grip . |
| 13 | But he was given by his unmarried mum to a childless couple from Corfu , probably the only such adoption ever to take place in the Greek islands . |
| 14 | After 12 years , is there any hope of the Government ever taking the interests of manufacturing industry properly into account ? |
| 15 | Wg Cdr ( " Mad Doc " ) Winfield DFC , AFC — and no braver man ever took to the air , after completing 127 sorties — was found dead by his wife halfway up the stairs with a tray of morning tea , which might be a sort of warning to those of you and there may be a few who do get up to make your wives cups of tea . |
| 16 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 17 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 18 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 19 | Later one of the teachers noticed that Stephen had written a short piece about the provision of gas masks that concluded : ‘ No real gas attack ever took place and so by the middle of 1940 most people had stopped carrying their masks . ’ |
| 20 | Taking what one commentator called " the biggest gamble ever taken by any prime minister or president " , de Klerk promised his own resignation and that of his government if the referendum showed a " no " majority . |
| 21 | Many of them admit it 's the most dangerous mission ever taken on by UN forces . |
| 22 | Has your Medau class ever taken place under a clear blue sky to music coming from an ice cream van ? |