Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] he [verb] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 2 | Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ? |
| 3 | His Dad would kill him if he found that he 'd taken them . |
| 4 | Yeltsin also announced that he had taken control of Soviet armed forces on Russian territory and on Aug. 23 he banned party organizations in them . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that there is widespread protest against the sentence of two months ' imprisonment … passed on the Liverpool Constable who admitted that he had taken four oranges , worth threepence , from a shed in the West Canada Dock … pilfering by the Police is a different matter from the same offence committed by a street urchin . |
| 6 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |
| 7 | Polybius , who did not like Timaeus , admitted that he had taken trouble to get information about the West . |
| 8 | At first Johnson denied it , in the sincere belief that he had not taken illegal substances , but when the doctor asked if he had taken Reactivin , Johnson endearingly replied in his strong Fife accent ‘ Aye , but they 're no drugs . ’ |
| 9 | Though not a conspicuously modest chap ( he confirmed that he had taken ‘ an ethos of academic excellence ’ with him to his original chair in Essex ) . |
| 10 | Fiona Jordan , defending , said Williams could remember little of what happened because he had taken Ecstasy at a rave party . |
| 11 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 12 | Then he knew that he had taken the wrong path . |
| 13 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 14 | ‘ He knew and he refused to take any part . ’ |
| 15 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 16 | He said that he had taken advantage of an amnesty for dissidents declared by Moi on June 1 , 1989 . |
| 17 | Haughey had denied all knowledge of the bugging , but on Jan. 21 Doherty said that he had taken the blame " to protect Haughey " and had decided to speak out only because a new telephone-tapping bill was about to be presented to the Dáil ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 18 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 19 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 20 | Vaguely he wished that he had taken more interest in old science . |
| 21 | Ruth waited till he 'd taken their food order before speaking . |
| 22 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 23 | He explained that he had taken the wrong path . |