Example sentences of "[vb past] that 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 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 Then he knew that he had taken the wrong path .
11 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 .
12 He said that he had taken advantage of an amnesty for dissidents declared by Moi on June 1 , 1989 .
13 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 ) .
14 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 .
15 Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned .
16 Vaguely he wished that he had taken more interest in old science .
17 He explained that he had taken the wrong path .
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