Example sentences of "that [pers pn] take [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water . |
| 2 | And did n't really know anything about rabbits and I know my aunt it 's a sort of family story that she took her doe to the buck and the buck had babies . |
| 3 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 4 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 5 | He had made a meticulous drawing of his find and had insisted that she take his handiwork with her to Moscow where it adorned , in turn , dormitory , flat and office . |
| 6 | Keeping pets , providing that you take your responsibilities very seriously , genuinely love animals , and look after the pets properly , is marvellous whether you live alone or with other people . |
| 7 | Sue insisted that we take her telephone number and told us that we should feel able to ring her at any time , day or night , with any problem , however trivial it seemed . |
| 8 | I I I 'm afraid Harry I 'm one of those that we take our our responsibility and if they do n't like what we 're doing they can |
| 9 | After the official closure it was with mixed emotions that we took our leave of Wadeville . |
| 10 | Dinner was an unvarying weekly round in which boiled beef and mutton figured largely , and it was little compensation to several hundred hungry schoolboys that they took their meals in the school 's magnificent hall , overlooked by the demure and decorative paintings of Antonio Verrio . |
| 11 | Several townspeople were so depressed at the semi-popish ways of Charles I and Archbishop Laud that they took their idealism to the New World , to a new and more perfect Dorchester . |
| 12 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
| 13 | It was so quick , so unexpected , that it took her breath away . |
| 14 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 15 | They held each other tight , so tight that it took their breath away , zipped together into one being . |
| 16 | Let us assume that in the split second that it took our sender to walk into the room and to recognise another person , a decision was made to smile . |
| 17 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 18 | Maggie looked so glad that he took her hand and raised it to his lips , kissing each finger as his eyes held hers . |
| 19 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 20 | Some know not that each Person in the Trinity is God ; nor that Christ is God and man ; nor that he took his human nature with him into heaven ; nor many the like necessary principles of our faith . |
| 21 | That he took his dealer to see it is a measure of Picasso 's opinion of Modi 's work . |
| 22 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
| 23 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 24 | It was on an aid pitch that he took his only fall , ripping two pegs before the last aid point held him . |
| 25 | Conscious that Marie-Claire was listening to every word , Melissa hesitated for a moment before saying , ‘ It is believed that he took his own life . ’ |
| 26 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 27 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 28 | Now , Carol 's noisy insistence that he take his coat into his own office and not leave it to drip on the communal coat-stand . |
| 29 | That he takes his job seriously is borne out by his willingness to worry about the Higgs boson . |