Example sentences of "[vb past] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LORRY driver who helped take aid to refugees in Croatia was yesterday named Britain 's Top Dad . |
| 2 | I stopped taking my testosterone tablets and went back on the dole again . |
| 3 | I really thought that was it , then I stopped taking them . ’ |
| 4 | Since I stopped taking the chlorambucil , the lumps are beginning to return , which is just as well . |
| 5 | She stopped taking the pills . |
| 6 | Incredibly , it seems they stopped taking bets on Whaddon finishing bottom way before Christmas . |
| 7 | No , I 've never taken them , I 've just , I stopped taking them . |
| 8 | Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby . |
| 9 | Mama stopped taking cookies off the baking-sheet . |
| 10 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 11 | All patients stopped taking any acid inhibitory agents at least two weeks before entering the study and none had received bismuth preparations in the past . |
| 12 | We stopped taking the Magnet and the Gem and the Boy 's Own Paper . |
| 13 | Six weeks ago one leading bookmaker stopped taking bets on Kenny Dalglish 's multi-million pound outfit . |
| 14 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |
| 15 | I caught , I caught took my hand to those cats . |
| 16 | Were both offences aggravated taking away ? |
| 17 | Last summer Atlanta proposed taking twice as much — up to 529m gallons a day — from the Chattahoochee and Lake Sidney Lanier to quench suburban growth over the next 20 years . |
| 18 | In the article on Jakobson this position was somewhat modified ; Riffaterre proposed taking as his informants not average readers but the so-called ‘ Superreader ’ , a figure representing the sum of reactions to the language of a text manifested in the published work of its interpreters , translators and so on . |
| 19 | Once , Ken invited Took and Feldman for lunch . |
| 20 | Whether the storm blew itself out quickly or not , the seas it moved took longer to reach their height , and longer , too , to die away . |
| 21 | Obliged to marry , these two tried taking turns to live in each other 's homes . |
| 22 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 23 | I tried taking mistresses , like Céline , the French dancer . |
| 24 | After he killed her he tried taking her wedding ring and when he could n't get it he hacked her whole fucking hand off . ’ |
| 25 | Desperate to find some release , Shannon tried taking long , solitary walks along the city 's golden shoreline , hunching her shoulders into a warm sheepskin jacket against the biting chill of the ever-present north-sea wind . |
| 26 | He pronounced took like a curse , and mimed the bad men looking by jutting his head forward and glaring at her like a demented goldfish . |
| 27 | Guild of Bricklayers ’ judges visited over half of the original projects entered taking into account technical quality , cleanliness of the face , correct use of coloured bricks and particularly the quality of any special features , such as arches . |
| 28 | The answers they provided took both institutional and ethical forms . |
| 29 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 30 | This involved taking apart any statements made by known offenders and seeing if they could pinpoint a flaw somewhere along the line . |