Example sentences of "had taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the interim period the prison authorities had taken David 's favourite visitor off his visiting list causing him to drift into despair . |
| 2 | Berkeley School had taken on a little more than they had bargained for . |
| 3 | However , once Kathleen had taken her decision about her own future , she decided that the risk had become worth taking . |
| 4 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 5 | In 1985 , they proposed to extend their role beyond that of an annual dining club for officers who had taken a degree through the police college scheme . |
| 6 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 7 | It had taken her days to invent this one . |
| 8 | Jay had taken her camera to photo the leather-bound treasures of the seventeenth century , where even the language was rounded in sepia sworls , respectful of rhythm , season , nature and wholeness . |
| 9 | But when they met , dinner at home , dinner out , dinner at Dionne 's , they had taken to sleeping together , sometimes just that , warmth in Dionne 's huge silky bed or hers , and sometimes a deep and wonderful sexual fusion , neither planned nor yearned after . |
| 10 | Lucy looked straight into the camera with a look she had taken — and still , against the odds — with a look Jay thought of as love . |
| 11 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 12 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 13 | He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar . |
| 14 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 15 | Sandy McGlashan had taken out a little yellow fiddle and was adding a frenzied strum of strings to the piper 's notes . |
| 16 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 17 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 18 | There was also a quote from Forbes ; he praised the stand I had taken in the face of management victimisation and stressed my right to real work . |
| 19 | Her preparations had taken six weeks . |
| 20 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 21 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 22 | I still had his jacket , but he had taken his wallet out at one of the bars and had that with him . |
| 23 | Ashton , like Stravinsky , took into account the technical developments which had taken place . |
| 24 | It had taken us seven hours to climb five pitches . |
| 25 | For Moby it was especially important because , as with most pups , he had correctly been kept away from parks and streets for health reasons during that critical early period of socialisation until his vaccination course had taken effect . |
| 26 | But on the last Page of the novel ‘ life had taken the place of dialectics ’ , and Raskolnikov is on his way home . |
| 27 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 28 | He found he had taken on more than he bargained for . |
| 29 | The communications link had taken two years to pioneer , in situ long before a road or railway . |
| 30 | 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 . |