Example sentences of "[adv] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it was she , rather than her husband , whom scholars praised for such discernment , and she who apparently took a personal interest in the literary side of her son 's education . |
| 2 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 3 | It only took a moment to make up his mind . |
| 4 | RAIDERS at a Co-op in Milton Keynes , Bucks , only took a box of crisps past their sell-by date . |
| 5 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 6 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 7 | How it happened we do n't know but the flight-recorder said it only took a couple of minutes and the navigator confirmed this . |
| 8 | This was n't a major catastrophe , and it only took a minute to rectify , but it 's a clear case of poor quality control . |
| 9 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 10 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 11 | He just about could do , because as it turned out she only took a percentage , unlike the other two who got through the lot , but then Egan had more to leave hidden than Place . |
| 12 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 13 | Which was which was that we did n't take the whole of the vacant dwellings , we only took a part , even though we are not aware of any planning policy that will restrict occupation of dwellings as second homes . |
| 14 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 15 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 16 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 17 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |
| 19 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 20 | It only took an instant , yet when you look back into their eyes you know that they know that you did it , and you know that they know that you know that they know ! |
| 21 | Lush J took a more accurate approach , it is submitted , in stressing that specific performance would not be granted " against mere mortgagees who only took an assignment by way of security " and that " It is impossible that specific performance of a contract can be decreed against a person with whom there is neither privity of contract nor privity of estate . " |
| 22 | This not only took the edge off the bitter taste , but also gave the drink a warm , attractive colour that looked ( even if nothing else about it was similar ) something like the superior imported French wines . |
| 23 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 24 | Second , and even more striking , it only took the experience of one minority ( strictly speaking , in the case of James I , the absence of the king as an English prisoner ) to produce the remarkable expedient of the Act of Revocation , which every king thereafter passed when he came of age . |
| 25 | I only took the term up because it was general conversation in the police force . |
| 26 | I only took the King ! ’ |
| 27 | Last weekend , however , after rioters looted and burned and smashed , and the army was compelled to escort Banda 's heir apparent , John Tembo , to safety , the Malawi News not only took the extraordinary step of giving a graphic account of the riots , complete with quarter-page photographs , but also accorded Chihana 's court case detailed front-page coverage . |
| 28 | He says he only took the job because the neon sign always cheers him up ; but the fact is he really needs the money . |
| 29 | " How is it you know so much when you only took the shop over last week ? " |
| 30 | If I only took the big parts and none of this TV crap I 'd just go away to film , and then when I was around I 'd really be around . |