Example sentences of "[conj] taken [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it . |
| 2 | A school leaver in 1976 , he had never owned a camera or taken a picture . |
| 3 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 4 | Sealed units must have destroyed at lot of the or taken a chunk out of the market . |
| 5 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 6 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 7 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 8 | Mr Healey had said he was himself knackered that morning , having returned the previous day , very late , from a seminar in Florence , and taken a dose of the cough mixture Benylin to get to sleep , which he found worked better than Mogadon . |
| 9 | Now Mrs Thatcher had originally gone to Peking just after the Falklands war , full of vim , and taken a hard line . |
| 10 | Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years . |
| 11 | ‘ We have tried to examine our down-side and taken a very prudent view of the problems we might get in the future , ’ he said . |
| 12 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 13 | He gave evidence as to how he and other officers had approached Drew on 22 July and taken a statement . |
| 14 | He put the flask on her lap to free both his hands for the cleaning , and before she knew it , she had raised the bottle to her lips and taken a sip . |
| 15 | Having thought through some or all of these questions and taken a hard look at the future you next need to analyse the job itself . |
| 16 | Having ‘ given his best ’ to the centre for four years and taken a major role in setting it up , he obviously felt ‘ very disappointed ’ he would n't be part of its new phase . |
| 17 | She must 've sneaked into the pantry one day when nobody was looking and taken a bite out of that jelly . |
| 18 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 19 | They had ignored the seriousness of the news bulletins that night and taken a trip down the Mersey on the Royal Iris to celebrate the finishing of their bedroom , though Mr Chamberlain had told them next day that they were at war with Germany . |
| 20 | Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort . |
| 21 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 22 | You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware . |
| 23 | The moment when Pascoe had sat down and taken a sip of the wine ! |
| 24 | Linley had left the restaurant at 3 p.m. and taken a taxi to Fleet Street , a journey of no more than ten minutes even on a busy Friday afternoon . |
| 25 | " And taken a knife to them , " Graham said , looking down at Slater 's legs and shrugging his arm free of the light grip which held it . |
| 26 | In 1956 he had quit the Voice full-time , settled into writing his weekly column , ‘ The Village Square ’ for the paper , and taken a job with the New York Times travel section . |
| 27 | Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie 's flat . |
| 28 | This would take place in view of the grandstands at 5.35 , after the players had checked their scores , signed their cards and taken a little time to compose themselves . |
| 29 | The girl had grinned and taken a gulp of iced tea . |
| 30 | And taken a paracetamol overdose . |