Example sentences of "[that] took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years have passed over my head but I have never felt the worship , the love and yet the fear that took possession of my soul then . |
| 2 | Winger Dalton joined Plymouth from Hartlepool in the £250,000 deal that took Cross to Hartlepool . |
| 3 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 4 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 5 | Bright sunshine welcomed the 20 riders that took part in Farnham Road Club 's weekly ten-mile time trial . |
| 6 | He was also one of those who formed the force that took part in the famous Dr. Jamieson 's Raid that led to the outbreak of the Boer War , and after the war , was a farmer in Rhodesia for ten years before returning to Scotland , where he died in 1951 . |
| 7 | also had one of its diesel locos on show and the many people that took part in the sponsored walk along the tracks to Mells Road , three miles towards Frome , were able to see the other two locos and the site of where the association will have its engineering base . |
| 8 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 9 | It has been argued that the mechanism of synaptic reinforcement at work here follows a rule that the psychologist Donald Hebb proposed forty years ago as the neuronal basis of memory : when an input pattern is successful in making a neuron fire , then the synapses that took part in making it fire are strengthened . |
| 10 | The five practices that took part in the shadow exercise became real fundholders in October 1991 and two other practices are participating in the small practice shadow exercise . |
| 11 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 12 | A sunken wreck in the Severn by Worcester racecourse is all that remains of the Tarka , a former lifeboat that took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 . |
| 13 | One of the seven members of the UK team that took part in last year 's World Championships Andrew Fisher from Rochdale emerged as the winner . |
| 14 | Ian Cannell , appeal chairman , emphasised that the sale of poppies helped not only the veterans of the First and Second World Wars , but those that took part in more recent campaigns . |
| 15 | Though there is clearly a potential conflict of interest , it is far from clear that the law against insider trading would be broken by a firm that took advantage of it . |
| 16 | Note that the surface of this species bears encrusting oysters of a species that took advantage of the hard surface of the dead gastropod . |
| 17 | Against that , many of the pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap stores that took advantage of falling property prices to expand in Britain are convinced they can grow at the expense of existing supermarket chains even when good times return . |
| 18 | The 30-year-old striker became big-spending Trevor Francis ’ latest recruit when he completed a swap deal that took Paul Williams and a £375,000 cash adjustment to Crystal Palace . |
| 19 | After take-off Beaton surveyed his surroundings : ‘ Silk-lined walls , arm chairs like Pullmans , various compartments for eating , sleeping , smoking — this is the aircraft that took Churchill to America … how grateful I am to be among the lucky ones on the last lap for home . ’ |
| 20 | They took part in the advance into Syria , they were part of the Brigade that took Damascus on 1 October 1918 , and were there 31 October , when the Armistice with Turkey was signed . |
| 21 | It was the marginal cultivators that took land on rabassa morta , who found tithes and feudal dues an intolerable burden , and they were not powerful enough to challenge either the large farmers or the aristocrats from whom they held their lands . |
| 22 | Later in the century , Francis of Assisi began to develop a more romantic spirituality that took mysticism out of the cloister into the world . |
| 23 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 24 | Well that took ages ! |
| 25 | He found one that took money rather than a card and dialled a number . |
| 26 | That took organization ; and that took money . |
| 27 | In Middle-earth , one may say , Providence or the Valar sent the dream that took Boromir to Rivendell ( I , 259 ) . |
| 28 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So from then on I had to make sure that everything I presented to Shawcraft was in the form of a very concise constructional drawing — and that took time — a lot of time . |
| 30 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |