Example sentences of "[conj] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Callaghan , when prime minister , would have the subjects he planned to raise on a piece of card , but often did n't bother to raise them , as they gossiped about politics or took a stroll around the gardens on summer evenings . |
| 2 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 3 | You went to Suffolk by the A12 through Chelmsford or took the country route . |
| 4 | It was , therefore , open to misrepresentation and special pleading , to accepting what it was told by the party that secured or took the initiative . |
| 5 | I would n't do anything that took a long , long time before it showed a reward . |
| 6 | In programming , the shifts were of emphasis — towards the needs of minorities , for example — that reflected the different society and culture of 1980s Britain and that took a pluralist not a paternalist view of the meaning of ‘ service ’ . |
| 7 | It was one of those accidents that took a long time to begin to feel serious . |
| 8 | Anyway , that took a year or two and I even remember taking my next brother to school , me mother saying Take Frank to school and tell Miss , he 's your brother and he 's five . |
| 9 | Erm that took a lot of time , a lot of thought and planning . |
| 10 | Er I 'm one of those people that took a two year er low pay rise , to put me into the Health Service when my husband was ill . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to convince him that it was n't that mob that took a shot at him . ’ |
| 12 | He was back in bed with Betty , getting there , getting there , his foot on the accelerator as he shot across the main road that took a steady morning stream of vehicles to the coast . |
| 13 | Anyway , that took a lot of our work do you see , back to clear them . |
| 14 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 15 | The transformation of the ceiling was brought about with two simple pulleys , almost on a clothes-line principle , that took a tent of diamonds and icicles up around the chandelier . |
| 16 | No , I think that erm you 'll be relieved of a lot of duties that took a lot of time and this will give you more leisure time to have your personal contacts and sport and other pleasure activities . |
| 17 | Recruited from Tesco to oversee the transformation of Victoria Wine for the Nineties , she accepts that ‘ Oddbins is the one retailer that took the 1980s very much to heart ’ . |
| 18 | The recession of the 1870s was shallow , but one that took the economy a long time to climb out of . |
| 19 | After gaining another Youth Cup winner 's medal in 1978 , Billy became a dominant central defender alongside Jim Cannon and was a key member of the side that took the Palace back into Division One in 1979 with the best defensive record in the club 's history ; Billy also gained the first of his eleven England Under 21 caps that season . |
| 20 | River boats brought wool to Rawcliffe from the West Riding , transferring their cargoes to the sea-going vessels that took the wool abroad . |
| 21 | There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler ’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All ’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired-up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time ’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure . |
| 22 | On closer inspection it becomes clear that this is , in fact , Mario meets F-Zero , the super-fast , futuristic racing sim that took the SNES by storm — thanks to brilliant 3-D graphics and Mode 7 , the SNES 's 360-degree rotation feature . |
| 23 | By the time the service was launched , there had been more than 11,000 enquiries from potential subscribers , a level of interest that took the backers completely by surprise . |
| 24 | There was a lot of underlying violence in Rufus , and not all that underlying either , a lion-like aggression in times of stress that took the form of a whooping , destructive merriment . |
| 25 | In the Dreamflight tradition , the crew of the British Airways jumbo that took the group to America were specially chosen for their affinity with children . |
| 26 | DON GOODMAN grabbed the goals that took the heat off boss Malcolm Crosby … but gave the credit to striker sidekick Peter Davenport . |
| 27 | They swaggered to a classy , confident victory full of irresistible one-touch football that took the Magpies ever closer to Reading 's 1985 record of 13 wins in a row at the start of a season . |
| 28 | The freshly unveiled Natal anthem ‘ 15 Men of the Last Outpost ’ , a folksy ballad , was unwittingly to become a fitting epitaph for not only Natal but for nearly every other South African side that took the field against either set of Antipodeans . |
| 29 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 30 | Those who prefer the second view are , however , in this difficulty : that it was the Movement itself that took the decision to reduce its ambitions to the more narrowly ameliorative and unobjectionable . |