Example sentences of "[vb past] take some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 4 | She 'd taken some clothes , though scarcely enough , even for three days . |
| 5 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 6 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 7 | At first I observed , then began to take some lessons . |
| 8 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 9 | Juliet started to take some books from her bag . |
| 10 | On Friday morning she always went to take some food to Kitty Dawson . |
| 11 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 12 | In Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , 88 per cent of the 243 of ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed did take some steps to aid new staff who were moving to take up an appointment . |
| 13 | Anyway in the end he and the Education Officer did take some action to control the bullies and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 14 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 15 | But it did take some time . |
| 16 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 17 | What Meredith Jones did took some months and what he did was unprecedented . |
| 18 | At last , after another million years persuading David she would be all right when she had taken some aspirin , she was alone , in her own flat . |
| 19 | The Beaver Committee defined 294 areas of England ‘ black ’ , requiring smoke control , and by 1974 all but fourteen local authorities had taken some steps towards implementing the Act . |
| 20 | Suppose also that , on another day , you had taken some shots of the unloading of a catch at the same location . |
| 21 | Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology . |
| 22 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 23 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 24 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 25 | ‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’ |
| 26 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 27 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 28 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
| 29 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 30 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |