Example sentences of "[adj] took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagles , with the elements in their favour in the opening half took full advantage , killing the game by building up a 20–0 advantage with the help of two tries from Price and six goals from eight attempts from Aston . |
| 2 | A few took local accommodation but most of us camped in the castle 's magnificent park . |
| 3 | Because the questionnaire was conducted in strict confidence some took this opportunity to express their thoughts . |
| 4 | In the second phase , the British planned to take the high ground running between Bapaume and Ginchy , while the French took that in the region around and north of Rancourt . |
| 5 | After it was crushed , the British took direct administrative control over the Kandyan districts . |
| 6 | This took such forms as the praise of regionalism in the United States in the 1930s , Marxist criticism in London or New York , or Communist positions taken by Italian critics after the Second World War . |
| 7 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |
| 8 | The initial treatment intervals start from the time of completion of the initial recanalisation , whether this took one or more treatments . |
| 9 | This took two principal forms . |
| 10 | This took two Saturdays . |
| 11 | This took another eight minutes . |
| 12 | This took another twenty minutes . |
| 13 | While this took different forms for the Asian and white women involved , nonetheless for all it was the only real economic option . |
| 14 | This took most of the weekend and the site was fully operational again by the following Monday . |
| 15 | Explaining this took some doing . |
| 16 | All this took some time and he was not a particularly military figure at the end of it . |
| 17 | This took some little time to effect , with no sign of the cattle-lifters evident . |
| 18 | This took some doing , as they seemed prepared to stay all night . |
| 19 | Moving this took 15 trips in my ancient Renault , which struggled under loads that threatened to dent its roof bars . |
| 20 | On the battlefield the English took vast plunder . |
| 21 | The English took little note of the fantasy before about 1585 ; the favourite form was still the ‘ In nomine ’ . |
| 22 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 23 | In the Lancashire reply offspinner Peter Such took 4–38 , ripping the heart out of the innings with the scalps of Mike Atherton , Graham Lloyd , Wasim Akram and De Freitas . |
| 24 | Watkin , who won two Test caps against the West Indies in 1991 took five for 71 . |
| 25 | Watkin , who won two Test caps against the West Indies in 1991 took five for 71 . |
| 26 | They were splendidly received by the villagers wherever they went , although the Japanese took brutal revenge afterwards on all who had welcomed them . |
| 27 | The testing at Buenos Aires-1 took two and a half days , Jeff App says , and the calculated formation damage ( skin values ) for the well 's producing layers were approximately 50 for the lower and 13 for the upper layer . |
| 28 | One example was the development of the Liberty ship , a slow-moving but easily constructed freighter which in 1941 took 355 days to build . |
| 29 | If Gilbert Racy took little account of ecclesiastical structures , his attitude to secular ones was solipsistic . |
| 30 | Eighteen of 23 ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients took only 200 mg/day while two took 250 mg and only three took 300 mg/day . |