Example sentences of "[noun prp] have taken [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Victoria has taken him home . ’ |
| 2 | He says Andy has taken it well , they 're good friends still . |
| 3 | He had barely slept after the meeting with the Consul from the Embassy and the escort of men in the khaki uniforms of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti had taken him still drowsy from the back seat to the train at a far platform . |
| 4 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 5 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 6 | It is estimated that less than 10 per cent of existing savers entitled to hold a TESSA have taken one out . |
| 7 | Alain has taken her back by car . |
| 8 | But little Harry had wept — for his beloved sister 's absence and Lily had taken him secretly to visit her . |
| 9 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 10 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 11 | To save both their lives , Raffaella had left her lucrative work in Rome and fled to Venice , where Giovanna had taken her in . |
| 12 | Gabriel had taken himself off under a table . |
| 13 | With their curiosity satisfied and the music too slow to be interesting , Wayne and Sandy had taken themselves out into the gardens to cool off . |
| 14 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 15 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 16 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 17 | Silas has taken me there twice . ’ |
| 18 | Consuelo had taken them out to get at the anti-inflammatory tablets for the patient with the sprained ankle . |
| 19 | The last time Ben had taken her there — on the quiet ; it was to be a secret Annie had done the clog dance to Ben 's playing his tin whistle . |
| 20 | Madeleine had taken her away from school . |
| 21 | Now I have I 've asked Dennis and Chris 's insisted that he deals with it so Chris has taken it over , and Dennis is getting back to Chris with the stockpiles of how much is ten weeks old , eleven you know so so you |
| 22 | In the north , the German advance from East Prussia had taken them as far as Windau , near the Gulf of Riga . |
| 23 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |
| 24 | Because Irina did not want to travel in one of the carts , Jehan had taken her up in front of him . |
| 25 | My voyage to Laputa , Balnibarbi , Glubbdubdrib and Luggnagg had taken me away from home for five and a half years . |