Example sentences of "[Wh pn] took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be noted that , in this , it was the laity who took the initiative . |
| 2 | Thanks so much to the thousands of you who took the time and trouble to fill out the Pet Census in the April issue . |
| 3 | The only man capable of stopping his flow of boundaries was Dickie Bird , who took the players off for bad light for quarter of an hour at 5.30 . |
| 4 | Silk Slippers certainly looks the part , being a staying filly with speed in the mould of Midway Lady , who took the 1,000 and Oaks three years ago . |
| 5 | Torquay United are expected to appoint Dave Smith manager today in succession to Cyril Knowles , the former Tottenham player who took the club from the verge of relegation to promotion play-offs in 1988 and the Sherpa Van Trophy final four months ago . |
| 6 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
| 7 | The civilian operator who took the SOS call may have heard the voice of her killer . |
| 8 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 9 | Les Holliday , with some intelligent distribution and accurate touch finding , established a measure of early control for the home side , who took the lead through Wilf George , after David Holmes had worked diligently to set up the chance . |
| 10 | Southgate , who took the League title on goal difference from Havant , will be out to avenge their penalty-stroke defeat by Hounslow in the League Cup final at Luton last April , after the teams had drawn 2-2 at the end of normal time . |
| 11 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 12 | In order for the company to know who took the document , to sue for recovery and damages , ‘ disclosure is necessary in the interests of justice ’ . |
| 13 | One of the winners is 16-year-old Sally Peattie , who took the Young Guardian prize , part of the Lloyds competition . |
| 14 | Nobody yet knows who took the disease there . |
| 15 | It was Marshall who took the game right away from England , holding together the tail for 62 not out and stretching the total to 399 . |
| 16 | When the day of the shoot came , she was astounded by the transformation in the appearance of the creative director , who took the day off to attend . |
| 17 | On Merseyside , the plant had split into two factions over the strike ; those who supported Clasper in his demand that the strike be continued until the sacked shop steward had been reinstated , and those who took the view that Clasper was playing power politics with their jobs at stake . |
| 18 | That man … who took the lead … how old do you think he was ? … |
| 19 | While it is easy to see how those people who took the aggressive martial language of Paisley and others as justification for violence can feel used , such an analysis over-simplifies and fails correctly to identify the ‘ respectable ’ Protestant 's view of the law and the genuine dilemmas of loyalism . |
| 20 | Sligo 's lake is Lough Gill , where lies the Isle of Innisfree , named after Froech , who took the dragon-slaying sword from the hand of Finiver , his betrothed , raised above the water . |
| 21 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 22 | Is this the man who took the little orphaned son of the brigand Dhoondiah Waugh into his household after he was found hiding on the battlefield amongst the baggage of his defeated father ? |
| 23 | He told Taylor , who appeared in the dock wearing a dark suit with a small teddy bear mascot on the breast pocket , that Parliament had laid down a maximum sentence of 10 years for an appropriate case and to deter those who took the law into their own hands . |
| 24 | In the Brazilian situation , it was the auto workers who took the leading role in the industrial disputes of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 25 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 26 | France had a new sovereign ‘ By the grace of God and the will of the people ’ , who took the title of Napoleon III , but who , from the outset , rejected all concepts of an hereditary claim to his title . |
| 27 | A bus travelling from Haifa to Nahariya in the early spring of 1948 was stopped by Arabs who took the five Jewish passengers from the vehicle and cut their throats . |
| 28 | In the cities it might be a neighbour up the street who took the part of grandparent , as for the Stoke pottery fireman 's son whose mother was always seeking advice from ‘ your Grandma Coates ’ — ‘ I could never find out what relative she was to me mother . |
| 29 | My thanks also are due to Miss Mary Burkett and her staff at Abbot Hall , from whom I have had help and co-operation since the start of the survey in 1975 ; to Mr B. C. Jones and Miss S. J. MacPherson , County Archivists , of the County Records Office , who have given generous help and advice ; ; to Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby , whose book first aroused my interest in the stocking trade ; to my fellow members of the Lancashire and Lakes Guild of Spinners , Weavers and Dyers for encouragement and support ; to my granddaughter , Anne Allen , who took the photographs , ( except where otherwise stated ) ; to my daughter , Jan Hare , who typed the manuscript ; to my friends , Penelope Porter , Kathryn Allen and Mary Sutherland , who gave technical advice , reviewed text and read proofs ; Elizabeth Edwards and Kathleen Drummond for advice and information , and above all my thanks to the many kind people who live where there are galleries , and who have put up with my enquiries with such patience and kindness . |
| 30 | It is the cattle dealers and butchers of the town who are of most interest to us , for it was they who took the dog of Rottweil and turned him to their use with great effect . |