Example sentences of "[pn reflx] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his arrival in Australia the unnamed chestnut colt was a tall , ungainly and unsightly animal with no hint of quality , and Davis so regretted his outlay , however modest , that the only way Telford could keep the horse in training was to make an arrangement with Davis whereby Telford himself took a three-year lease on the horse , taking two thirds of any prize money won in return for footing the training bill . |
| 2 | The king himself took a hand in the vigorous re-enforcement of the Forest law . |
| 3 | When there was still no evident reaction from the castle , the Regent himself took a hand . |
| 4 | Ramsay himself took a detachment and raced ahead therefore , knowing the position . |
| 5 | John Parker , who himself took a nasty knock on the head while batting in a famous Press match at Harrogate in 1977 , stiffens his reader on page 9 by having the bumptious captain of Surrey keel over ‘ like a battleship hit by a torpedo ’ . |
| 6 | His father was one of the staunchest Royalists in the City during the civil war , and Garway himself took a commission in the royal army as captain of foot . |
| 7 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 8 | Then he ordered Ram to serve out the reddest shot he could find in the furnace , watched it loaded and , motioning the pensioners back , himself took the portfire and touched it to the vent . |
| 9 | Wheeler himself took the head of the table with the Bishop on his right and the Archdeacon next to him . |
| 10 | Thomas , who testified first , vehemently denied Hill 's charges and himself took the offensive against liberal Democrats for allowing his reputation to be destroyed in public hearings , televised to the world . |
| 11 | He assisted Edmund Ironside against Cnut , but died and was buried in Hereford , while the Ironside himself took the sister of a Welsh king , and received the support of the Welsh beyond Severn from Lancaster to Malvern . |
| 12 | In Tunisia , in many ways the most developed and westernised of the North African countries , the government itself took a pro-Iraqi line . |
| 13 | The Department of Employment itself took the view in 1988 that evidence was lacking on the extent of age barriers in employment and argued that the problems facing older workers would disappear as the demographic changes became better understood by employers . |
| 14 | Metron itself took the opportunity to launch Athene/Open , an integrated capacity management environment for Unix , also available on MVS , VMS , and VME . |
| 15 | The court itself took the point that the committal was invalid and quashed a sentence of 18 months ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | Laura herself took no part in these business arrangements . |
| 17 | It might have been difficult to prove that librarians themselves took the initiative for the censorship , although many would have been pleased to make that claim . |