Example sentences of "she [verb] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wife was told that the only asset available to her was the matrimonial home and she agreed to take a lump sum of £12,600 with £2,473 maintenance for the two children . |
| 2 | She wants to take a luxury winter cruise … next January … |
| 3 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 4 | She has to take a taxi everywhere . |
| 5 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 6 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
| 7 | As a result , she has taken a calculated decision to ensure that the royal grandchildren remain — whatever the cost — under her influence . |
| 8 | Now listen answer the question I asked you , answer the question I asked you , she has taken a lot of drugs in the past , not Prozac . |
| 9 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 10 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 11 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd taken a cordon bleu cookery course , she told me . |
| 14 | Once , she 'd taken a hammer to the headlamp of his motorcycle . |
| 15 | Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice . |
| 16 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 17 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 19 | To my surprise , she 'd taken a regular job selling frames and contact lenses and had stuck it and was boss of the shop . |
| 20 | She 'd taken a liking to Silvia and had no wish to betray her and get her into trouble with her quarrelsome cousin . |
| 21 | Yet , when she was asked by the coroner to step into the witness-box , she seemed to take a grip on herself , drawing on some inner strength . |
| 22 | She seemed to take a fancy to a green patch further into the field and began to amble slowly towards it . |
| 23 | She turned to take a reassuring glance at the gondola , but it was no longer there . |
| 24 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 25 | But the results were good ; people praised her cooking lavishly , and she began to take a pride in doing it well . |
| 26 | She decided to take a look at the harbour . |
| 27 | Rather than go straight on to drama college , she decided to take a year out to travel . |
| 28 | But after a term she decided to take a different route , bookshop experience , a degree in English , more bookshop experience , and some in wholesaling . |
| 29 | She decided to take a train to Arles , idly wondering whether there was any trace of Van Gogh left . |
| 30 | Instead , she decided to take a look at the old church — mellow golden Cotswold stone , skirted by crazy-angled tombstones . |