Example sentences of "[vb past] take [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 2 | He 'd taken to calling on Fridays for his money . |
| 3 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 4 | And today — today when I thought you 'd taken to leaving with resignation and humour , you were planning this little surprise . |
| 5 | Once inside the shed , Amis entered the cage and cast around for the big wrench that he 'd taken to keeping in here . |
| 6 | She 'd taken to having an early morning swim to strengthen her ankle , which was doing fine . |
| 7 | Despite herself , and probably because she was still feeling the effects of the whisky she 'd taken before going to bed , Rory began to giggle . |
| 8 | In the early days of the ‘ curriculum revolution ’ , when our enthusiasm was matched only by our arrogance , many curriculum workers in Europe , America and Africa seemed to take for granted that , since their new ideas were such very good ones , they would be widely and rapidly accepted by schools . |
| 9 | He seemed to take for granted that she would share his views on the derelicts . |
| 10 | Cliff Paul and Barry Sheppard began taking in paying guests as an extension of their enthusiasm for entertaining friends . |
| 11 | I made most of the kids ' gear , all my own , most of Malc 's trousers , and started taking in sewing for club-turns . |
| 12 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 13 | As a boy , Zeng had taken to developing old negatives that he found lying around in his house , and an interest in actually taking photographs naturally followed . |
| 14 | Since Wendy had taken to hovering over the bed , Rhoda had reclaimed her as a daughter and now spoke freely of the past . |
| 15 | Not allowed into the Royal Exchange , the dealers had taken to meeting at Jonathon 's Coffee House near the Bank , which was to become known in 1773 as the Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 17 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 18 | The group who had taken her under their wing were Parisian bandits , who had taken to harassing the Nazis since the occupation . |
| 19 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 20 | Oh yes , he was recanting on the Exhibition which , for some reason , he had taken to calling " The World 's Vanity Fair " . |
| 21 | Of course , Connor was not Danny 's father , but since the wedding a year ago the lad had taken to calling him ‘ Dad ’ , and seemed to have forgotten Sean altogether . |
| 22 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 23 | Normally the nomes stayed at floor level , but Dorcas had taken to sending his young assistants on to the big desk in the manager 's office occasionally , where there were useful scraps of paper . |
| 24 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 25 | She had not even the comfort of Hector 's presence , for her nervousness upset him and he had taken to roaming again , now that his leg was healed . |
| 26 | Ma had taken to knitting again , long grey pullovers and slipovers and socks . |
| 27 | On the strength of this exchange , Lewis realized that Havard would be a man who would enjoy meeting some of the people who had taken to dropping into his rooms at Magdalen on Thursday evenings . |
| 28 | The garrison , too , had taken to watching the spectators through telescopes , above all to see what they were eating . |
| 29 | After dinner Molly , who had taken to reading there in the afternoons , went into the big downstairs sitting-room to find her book . |
| 30 | Jacob removed the glasses he had taken to wearing . |