Example sentences of "she took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a sip of her coffee , then continued : ‘ I think I 'm going to get over him , you know . ’ |
| 2 | She took a tight breath and stared at her knee . |
| 3 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 4 | She took a run-up , carved quite a beautiful arc against the sky and promptly vanished , with a shoosh , into very long , dry grass . |
| 5 | She took a decision from Stefana Drzewiecka , of Poland , was strangled by the Frenchwoman , Aline Batailler , but then had two good wins in the repechage . |
| 6 | She took a no-nonsense approach . |
| 7 | At the Dublin summit of the EEC countries in December 1979 she took a highly belligerent , insular line . |
| 8 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 9 | She took a drink of her wine , and then , disconcertingly , asked , ‘ What 's all this about a boyfriend ? ’ |
| 10 | She took a BSc honours degree in Sociology at London University , worked as a community counsellor for one-parent families in Camden and was on the literature panel of the Arts Council until their decision to return to the Government some money designated for writers ' bursaries led her to resign in disgust . |
| 11 | WHEN Margaret Thatcher travelled the world as prime minister , she took a bulldog with her . |
| 12 | She took a taxi outside the station and the driver promptly launched into his life history : he had worked hard all his life for one of the big oil companies , inspecting petrol pumps all over Suffolk and had been made redundant in his early fifties with the very minimum of redundancy money . |
| 13 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 14 | Mrs Wright did n't ring the bell or knock , she took a key out of her pocket and opened it . |
| 15 | Gina usually wore old dresses and woollies when in bed with him and always locked the bathroom door tightly when she took a bath . |
| 16 | She took a deep breath and made herself speak slowly . |
| 17 | Then she took a little tin brooch from her pocket . |
| 18 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 19 | She took a bit of convincing , mind ! |
| 20 | She took a short cut along the prom . |
| 21 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |
| 22 | She took a deep breath . |
| 23 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 24 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 25 | Here , she took a step back and called on Ferdinando to discuss Garibaldi and his Red Shirts and the promises of Cavour — they were names to her and nothing more . |
| 26 | She took a few mouthfuls of coffee . |
| 27 | You could help me find out if I 've made a terrible mistake coming here , and if — ’ She took a deep breath . |
| 28 | She could feel Jackie watching her as she took a step forward , but she resisted the temptation to glance back , thrusting herself away from him , one step after another , angrily trying to justify her uncharacteristic behaviour and telling herself that she had no need to justify it . |
| 29 | She took a minute to make up her mind to accept . |
| 30 | She moved on , and into a quagmire of silt which she had to wade through , making obscene sucking noises every time she took a step . |