Example sentences of "[noun pl] take his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn 's brace of neatly taken goals took his tally to six in four games since starting a month 's loan from Newcastle . |
| 2 | A lump of turf from a careless hoof hit his hat with a thud ; he crouched lower , his knees taking his weight . |
| 3 | The multiplying sins took his breath away . |
| 4 | Stephen Murray had saved up for months to take his wife on the trip . |
| 5 | But Mick Quinn had the final say , scoring the last two goals to take his Coventry total to an astonishing eight goals in five games . |
| 6 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 7 | Bartocci took his place on the other side of the desk . |
| 8 | But Cis took his side . |
| 9 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 10 | He could n't care less that very few viewers take his programme seriously , regaling us with tales of the terrible people they 've featured . |
| 11 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 12 | And one of the servants takes his one talent and he uses it and he works very hard with it and he buys erm raw goods and he makes things and he he a makes his one talent up into ten . |
| 13 | The ā gri took his mastiff mongrel together with a parcel of rice for the dhāmi : when he returned in the evening he said that the dog was no longer afflicted . |
| 14 | Sheisshaus took his pleasures in the midst of Herr Von Diesel 's cuckoo-clock collection . |
| 15 | Perhaps nothing would embarrass God more than if every one of His creatures took His Word literally and to heart . |
| 16 | Two girls took his surname but were either illegitimate or adopted . |
| 17 | St Peter was certainly married and on apostolic journeys took his wife with him . |
| 18 | Eventually in 1858 he persuaded the Morning Advertiser and other newspapers to take his service on a fortnight 's free trial . |
| 19 | By his second marriage John Vaughan had no children of his own , but his wife 's three children by previous marriages took his name . |
| 20 | The two tries wing GLEN WEBBE scored against Saracens took his total for Bridgend to 250 — and he has since increased that to 255 . |
| 21 | The police took his house apart looking for possible clues after she vanished from a leisure centre car park . |
| 22 | Andropulos took his glass — a scotch and not a small one , and disposed of half the contents in one gulp . |
| 23 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 24 | DERBY were made to pay for a sloppy display of defending as Guy Whittingham scored after seven and 50 minutes to take his season 's tally to 29 . |
| 25 | Charles has already made plans to take his sons skiing alone in February . |
| 26 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 27 | Molassi took his eyes off the way ahead . |
| 28 | The prize pupil , however , turned out to have another side to his character , and others took his place on the platform on prize day . |
| 29 | ‘ For a short time one of my agents took his place . ’ |
| 30 | Rather , he was able to use his considerable personal appeal and powers of persuasion to convince others to take his line . |