Example sentences of "taken a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have a gem of a nun who 's a wizard with a needle , and after she 'd taken a tuck in the waist and put two inches on the hem , they looked almost tailor-made . ’ |
| 2 | Wooster Gardens , a new gallery , has taken a floor in the building that houses Tom Cugliani and American Fine Arts and other new ventures — Penine-Hart , Sandra Gering and David Zwirner — have all recently opened their doors in SoHo . |
| 3 | Rory had been down home in the country all day long , working on some bad debt accounts with Tom Holdfast , so he and Mallachy had taken a couple in the Wellington Park to wash away the nasty taste of commerce . |
| 4 | She admires wealth-creators , entrepreneurs , and people who have taken a chance in the market rather than those who work in the public sector . |
| 5 | German and Swedish trade unions have taken a role in the initiation of flexibility in the workplace , in the promoting of job enrichment through the broadening of job classifications . |
| 6 | One day he had taken a walk in the country , and had surprised two lovers in a wood . |
| 7 | THE DREAM of going it alone in business has taken a tumble in the present dodgy financial climate . |
| 8 | With the Mediterranean 's natural sponge resources nearly exhausted , Lesson has taken a step in the right direction by importing sponges from the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 9 | As our biggest lender to small businesses NatWest has taken a hammering in the recession . |
| 10 | Owen had taken a house in the old part of the city not far from the Mar Girgis . |
| 11 | This case illustrates the management of a patient who had taken an overdose in the setting of long-standing marital difficulties , and where there were added problems concerning a child . |
| 12 | What is even more remarkable against this background is that modern science has now not only taken an interest in the mystical art of the Zodiac , but is actually trying to prove that a person 's stars do have an effect . |
| 13 | Hoyland , like Hayling , had taken an interest in the campaign being run by their GLC employers to ‘ disinvest ’ — withdraw investment — from companies involved in South Africa . |
| 14 | The two-year row has been rumbling on since it became clear the Ffestiniog Company had taken an interest in the project . |
| 15 | They too have taken an interest in the ideological and cultural world of the communities but only to facilitate and improve their marketing of so-called popular drugs like aspirin and alkaseltzer . |
| 16 | The bears are thought to have taken an interest in the local sheep after grazing areas were enclosed in a neighbouring valley [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 17 | This vitally important point is apparently misunderstood by some of the philosophers who have , in recent years , taken an interest in the theory of natural selection . |
| 18 | This is Local Government Information unit , which is funded from all of the Local Authority Associations , and they have taken an interest in the passing of the environmental bills and they ran , we do give them some help , which we did . |