Example sentences of "she [verb] taken [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elderly lady , a writer of crime-stories , was featured ; for years she has taken regular night walks , striding out for miles through the city of London , observant of everything around her . |
| 2 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 3 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 4 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 5 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 6 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 7 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 8 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 9 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 12 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 13 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 14 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 15 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 16 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 17 | She started with the bones — good thing she had taken those anatomy courses — and laid on muscle , flesh and skin . |