Example sentences of "who have [adv] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must strike a chord with anyone who has just taken possession of a modern house with a postage stamp for a plot of land . |
| 2 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 3 | Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them . |
| 4 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 5 | Anyone who has ever taken anti-histamines to relieve an allergy or the symptoms of hay fever will know that such tablets often cause drowsiness and a inability to think as clearly as usual . |
| 6 | Nobody who has ever taken the trouble to visit General Gouraud 's observation post on a cold , dank winter 's day , could ever escape the hell-hole ambiance of such a deathly place which seems to reach out over the decades of time to shame and sicken the human race . |
| 7 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 8 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 9 | Anyone who has recently taken up some form of exercise will tell that it has brought them enhanced mental energy and concentration , the ability to sleep more deeply and a feeling of well-being . |
| 10 | Perhaps ’ corrupt ’ is too strong , because we do not know who has actually taken out key words or added sections at the last minute because they are worried about the public impact of certain phrases . |
| 11 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 12 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 13 | CORNERSHOP , the Anglo-Asian band from Leicester who 've recently taken to burning Morrissey posters onstage and performing ironic covers of ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ and ‘ Asian Rut ’ , play their debut London show at the Camden Falcon on October 17 . |
| 14 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 15 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 16 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 17 | That month the Earl ( or by Jacobite reckoning Duke ) of Ormonde visited Spain , at Alberoni 's invitation , to be followed by two other leading Jacobites , George Keith , the tenth Earl Marischal , who had commanded the cavalry at Sheriffmuir , and his brother James , known as Marshal Keith , who had also taken part in that campaign . |
| 18 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |
| 19 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 20 | The meeting was held to contain and deal with the mobilization of an estimated 400-500 re-contras ( disbanded contras who had again taken up arms ) in the northern Jinotega province . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the risk of endometriosis was low in women currently taking oral contraceptives ( relative risk 0.4 ; 95% confidence interval 0.2 to 0.7 ) , but higher in women who had formerly taken them ( 1.8 ; 1.0 to 3.1 in women who had stopped 25–48 months previously ) compared with women who had never taken the pill . |
| 22 | Comparing the 8-hour with the 5.5-hour sleep regimes for the six subjects who had normally taken 8 hours sleep . |
| 23 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |
| 24 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 25 | In the Divisional Court , Horridge J rejected this argument on the basis that an assignee who had neither taken possession nor attorned tenant could not claim specific performance in his own right … |
| 26 | Those who had previously taken six catches in a match are : M.C. Cowdrey ( v WI , Lord 's 1963 ) , A.W . |
| 27 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 28 | Pauline Quinn of Ballymena and Antrim took the women 's race from Jill Bruce of Dromore who had earlier taken the 1500 . |
| 29 | Lewin , of Toxteth , who had never taken a driving test and was already banned for stealing cars , admitted manslaughter . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the risk of endometriosis was low in women currently taking oral contraceptives ( relative risk 0.4 ; 95% confidence interval 0.2 to 0.7 ) , but higher in women who had formerly taken them ( 1.8 ; 1.0 to 3.1 in women who had stopped 25–48 months previously ) compared with women who had never taken the pill . |