Example sentences of "[adj] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Newcastle Gosforth had opted out of their match at Saracens , the fly half took the opportunity to take his points total over 400 when he appeared as a guest for his old club at Middlesbrough on Saturday . |
| 2 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 3 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 4 | Most enjoyed the luxury of employing a cleaner to do their housework but a few took a puritanical delight in doing their own . |
| 5 | Very few took the position of Ada Nield Chew , who saw clearly how the position of working wives was complicated by their reproductive function , and who believed that women 's sole responsibility for home and children represented the chief impediment to self-fulfilment . |
| 6 | Some took a pride in their work and explained that by using the override they could get a better product . |
| 7 | Some took the arduous climb , a square-by-square approach , passing the hurdles of Sergeant 's and Inspector 's examinations , serving time on a variety of specialist duties , and beat supervision . |
| 8 | Some took the view that it was essential that English be made less " remote from the living interests of the average adolescent " , A few even attempted to move literary education in the direction of political " confrontation . " |
| 9 | It was after all from the Portuguese that the French took the hint about the rightness of fresh tomato sauce with eggs , fish and rice ; à la portugaise signifying , in French cookery , a dish in which the tomato figures . |
| 10 | By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . |
| 11 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 12 | As the Americans hoped to obtain substantial rights in the Middle East , the British took the opportunity to use their influence in those countries and warn the governments about what wide American penetration of their air services would mean . |
| 13 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 14 | The approaches to investment appraisal discussed in chapters 1 and 2 took an individual-project perspective . |
| 15 | There was also a chance that plants might be stolen and Collinson reported in January 1751 , ‘ … to my great loss , some prying , knowing people looked into the cases and out of that numbered 2 took the three roots of Chamaerhododendron , honey laurel , root of silver-leaved arum and the Spirea alnifolio … |
| 16 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 17 | This took a couple of minutes , during which striped shirt and pink tie sat back , long legs crossed and polite smiles of amusement or possibly incredulity on their lips . |
| 18 | For the first time , this took an uncompromising line ; there was no more talk of limiting the damage . |
| 19 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 20 | This took the price back to where it was before Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait last August . |
| 21 | The mere fact that this took the road through a school and a housing estate was of secondary interest . |
| 22 | This took the issue a giant step forward . |
| 23 | At times this took the sophisticated form of explaining contradictions between biblical texts at the literal , historical level as being deliberately placed there by the divine author to teach the point that a deeper meaning lies beyond the literal sense . |
| 24 | This took the form of small , specially recruited discussion groups of tea-drinkers . |
| 25 | This took the form of the disintegration of social , political and economic equilibrium , with all the waste that accompanied such a process . |
| 26 | He highlighted the differences by a series of juxtapositions : ‘ over-production ’ versus ‘ goods famine ’ ; ‘ overproduction of grain' versus ‘ under-production of grain' , i.e. , disproportion between production and consumption , but in the capitalist countries this took the form of over-production , in the Soviet Union of under-production , ‘ disproportion between various branches of production ’ etc . |
| 27 | This took the form of masturbation , a mild sort of masturbation . |
| 28 | This took the form of fin display — first by him , then by her . |
| 29 | Highly confidential , but somewhat easily ( deliberately ? ) leaked , this took the form of a memorandum from Labour Leader Neil Kinnock 's Press Secretary , Patricia Hewitt , to London Labour MPs ' Chair Frank Dobson . |
| 30 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |