Example sentences of "[adv] took a " 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 | When both together took a few slow hops down one of the runs near-by , Hazel followed and little by little they all three moved out of the hall . |
| 21 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 22 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 23 | But it suddenly took a flier and I knew I was in trouble . |
| 24 | She alighted at Groppis , and inside took a seat beside an aristocratic-looking Lt Colonel , who had obviously been awaiting her . |
| 25 | Benedict looked at the hand , and pointedly took a chair on the other side of the room , lounging in a stance of deliberate contempt . |
| 26 | I was still wide awake an hour later so took a gulp of wine to help me sleep . |
| 27 | Tammuz opened his mouth at Roirhak who merely took a sip of coffee . |
| 28 | But Neath are backing the player 's insistence that he merely took a cold remedy . |
| 29 | In the first autumn of his premiership he not merely took a leap in the dark but decided upon an expedition into the profound obscurity of political outer space . |
| 30 | For the happy-go-lucky youngster from Surrey Hills , life quite literally took a dramatic turn when she was just 11 years old . |