Example sentences of "[Wh pn] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth and formation of public opinion on this matter was in part the work of certain members of the Council and other prominent individuals who took every opportunity to attack the planners ' decisions and the activities of the Council 's Planning Committee . |
| 2 | The proud fighter who took every challenge , was overcome with fear that they could mock me with their chat , but delighted to be noticed . |
| 3 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 4 | LONG before they emerged in last year 's French Championship final as an intimidating three-headed monster , breathing fire and brimstone , the Bègles-Bordeaux from row of Simon , Moscato and Gimbert had acquired a rather unsavoury reputation as a hard , mean trio who took no prisoners and believed in the virtues of swift , unsophisticated retribution . |
| 5 | ‘ There were only two old biddies , who took no notice . ’ |
| 6 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 7 | She had never directed , produced , acted or written drama — but , by God , she was a bright , highly intelligent , outspoken Production Secretary who took no nonsense and never gave any — but all with winning charm . |
| 8 | ‘ We are , in fact , ’ continued her husband , who took no offence at her interruptions , indeed , in these foreign circumstances , counted on them as if his sentences were much improved for being broken into , ‘ building a property here — ‘ |
| 9 | Brenda pointed this out to Albert , who took no remedial action . |
| 10 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 11 | He was supported by three well-known figures , L. B. Kamenev , A. Rykov , and P. G. Smidovich , who took a prominent part in the suppression of the Tambov revolt according to the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia . |
| 12 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 13 | But the ministry was anyway not run by the maiden aunts of the BBFC but by members of the intelligentsia who took a reasonably broad view of wartime cinema , and recognized that effective propaganda was subtle propaganda . |
| 14 | In Mandalay , Kington drove round with an Australian who took a detached interest while overtaking a pair of cyclists in line abreast , pedalling hand-in-hand all over the road . |
| 15 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 16 | ‘ We used to have a shop in this block which sold leads , collars , blankets , and so on , to anybody who took a rescued dog from us for rehoming . |
| 17 | He hopes that Beresford , who departed with hamstring trouble , Anderton , who took a blow on the ribs , and Awford , who injured a hip , are among those who will prove refreshed . |
| 18 | THE West Country has seen some notable eccentric squires , such as the squire of Selworthy who took a fly-fishing rod to church so he could wake anyone nodding off during the sermon with a smart crack on the head with a lead sinker . |
| 19 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 20 | This was not to the liking of the Social Democrats , who took a more nationalist position , placing national unification above Western allegiance in their order of priorities , and advocating a spurious ‘ third way ’ between East and West , a kind of German ‘ special path ’ . |
| 21 | One of the few surviving descriptions of the old house is by Dr. John Wallis who took a scientific interest in the extraordinary chimneys . |
| 22 | An obsession with the Classical past was to return under the emperor Hadrian , who took a deep personal interest in the fortunes of Greece and eagerly adopted a Greek appearance . |
| 23 | Neil Marten ( now Sir Neil Marten ) was an active local MP , and a Conservative who took a characteristically independent and critical line in the apparently endless debates about Britain 's entry to the Common Market . |
| 24 | There was this lawyer bloke who took a notion |
| 25 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 26 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 27 | A new Archbishop of Canterbury was selected who took a public stance against clergy in gay and lesbian relationships , but who was persuaded to adopt a more flexible position , at least for the time being . |
| 28 | Anyone who took a clean catch ‘ made no mistake ’ . |
| 29 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 30 | However , as Omari has pointed out , the paper also printed letters from readers who took a nationalist point of view , and tried to provide answers to them . |