Example sentences of "[conj] took [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferkhan 's main business , he explained , was spare car parts which he either bought from abroad or took from wrecked vehicles he bought up cheap . |
| 2 | Marie , still in her pyjamas , was sitting slumped at the table that took up most of the floor space : you had to squeeze round it to move about at all in the tiny kitchen , and Marie 's legs had permanent bruises from its sharp comers . |
| 3 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 4 | Medvedev called , in October 1988 , for an ‘ up-to-date conception of socialism ’ , one that took into account the diversity of experience of the other socialist countries and indeed the lessons that could be learned from the capitalist world . |
| 5 | That 's gon na be about three minutes , that took about |
| 6 | My father remembers the whirr and bite of the saw that took off the top of his skull . |
| 7 | He made a sweeping gesture with his arm that took in the wilderness of derelict factories beyond the perimeter fence . |
| 8 | She felt her face go hot with embarrassment as he straightened up and gave her a piercing look that took in everything about her appearance . |
| 9 | The race returned for on year in 1940 and was held over nine laps of a 100-mile circuit that took in Brescia-Cremona-Brescia and , while it was generally known as the Brescia Grand Prix , it still was accorded Mille Miglia status , unlike the 1939 event . |
| 10 | Creggan looked at her and then , mantling his wings , glared angrily at the world outside the Cages , a glare that took in the Zoo , the Men , the trees , the wind and even the sky , and said loudly , ‘ I can face anything , anything ! ’ |
| 11 | Traditionally , Mother and Baby Homes were religious-based , charity-run institutions that took in girls who had " fallen " , and cared for them during their pregnancy and for some time afterwards . |
| 12 | He smiled and made a little admiring gesture with his hand that took in Lepine 's well-cut linen suit , his handmade shoes and silk shirt . |
| 13 | He reined in his horse and made a gesture with one hand that took in the flat dead wasteland and the strangled trees and the black barrenness . |
| 14 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 15 | Maggie glared at him through eyes glazed with tears , and he shrugged , glancing a brilliant look at her that took in everything . |
| 16 | FlyPast had the honour of visiting the very busy 35 Squadron at D F Malan Airport ( Cape Town 's main airport ) and to fly with the general transport element on a formation training sortie that took in the Cape Town coast and the all-dominating vista of Table Mountain . |
| 17 | But if people do n't pack , as was the example of this job to this last week that took till erm the time it was it was four o'clock as I said when they finished . |
| 18 | 24 Then Joseph being bed from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him , and took unto him his wife . |
| 19 | He put on exquisite robes that had come as a gift from distant India , and took of vial of scented water , then mounted upon his noble steed . |
| 20 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 21 | Slowly he righted himself and took off the mask , although she could not see his face for she was not looking at him . |
| 22 | When she reached Ruth 's area , she moved the screen out into the room and took off the shawls , flowers and bells . |
| 23 | Margery drank and took off the flying-helmet and lay face-down on the bed . |
| 24 | He was a good mimic and took off Virginia McKenna , Bill Travers and practically everyone in the cast . |
| 25 | They lashed alongside and they lowered the stuff right onto the onto the coble To start with we rowed it ashore with a couple or oars or maybe four oars and took off the cattle and that the same way just . |
| 26 | I decided to chance it and killed the bike 's engine and took off the helmet . |
| 27 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 28 | Rodrigo set out upon the road , and took with him twenty knights . |
| 29 | In 1848 , when the new chaplain for the English Church arrived , Lowe set up a rival church ( the Beco Chapel ) with his own supporters , who numbered about one third of the English Church members , and took with him communion plate and silver from the English Church . |
| 30 | The next was a black cocker spaniel , and the third a springer spaniel which I trained to retrieve and took with me whenever I went away to shoot . |