Example sentences of "he took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOVE AFFAIR : Father Christopher O'Neill … he took Monika on holiday to Scotland |
| 2 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 3 | He took Karen into a small room and closed the door . |
| 4 | He took Paul up in his arms and carried him inside , laying him on the sofa . |
| 5 | He took Pask 's conservative philosophy even further by stressing that even in less strained times Britain should not pioneer technology , but should let America develop experience and then copy the designs . |
| 6 | In the brief civil war that followed he took Worcester for the rebels in January 1322 , but was captured by the king 's forces at Tutbury , Derbyshire , on 11 March . |
| 7 | He took plaster casts of these holes , which showed that some of them had contained pointed and the others blunted stakes . |
| 8 | Although he took Parliament 's side at the beginning of the civil war he attempted to arrange a neutrality pact with the Norfolk Royalists , and was soon advocating peace . |
| 9 | He took Peter , James and John into the house where the girl was surrounded with people crying and wailing in their distress . |
| 10 | He took Adam on to Sudbury for him to catch a train there and at that point they parted . |
| 11 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 12 | He took soundings , made a landing on North Foreland in King George Island , where he took possession , and examined the northern coast of the islands from east to west . |
| 13 | Stretching out his arm he took Finn 's postcard in his fingertips and settled his chair back on to an even keel . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you , Dagmar , ’ he said to the maid , and all smiles , he took Fabia to find Ivo and Azor . |
| 15 | I never met him , but my brother and I had a glimpse of him at Paddington in 1940 , when he took Ivy and Margaret to Woodstock . |
| 16 | He took Basil upstairs to the locked room . |
| 17 | I think that 's why he took Belasco 's story , which at least on the surface seems to be rather second-rate . |
| 18 | He took breakfast to her the following morning . |
| 19 | After the usual pleasantries he took Mark along one of the labyrinth of corridors flanked with busts of the famous , and stopped before a heavy oak-panelled door attended by a liveried usher . |
| 20 | Far from wealthy , he took deacon 's orders and became chaplain to his cousin , Robert Sutton , second Baron Lexington [ q.v. ] , the new ambassador to Vienna in 1694 . |
| 21 | He went on to say that he liked van Rappard in spite of his lifestyle , because he took things seriously , underlining the word . |
| 22 | Like all his kind he took things without thinking of their worth . |
| 23 | He took things out of context and everything focused on Armageddon , the end of the world , apocalypse . |
| 24 | His mother gave up farming and he took things over . |
| 25 | He took things easy during yesterday 's training at Clonshaugh but will have a stiffer work-out today before manager Jack Charlton names his starting 11 . |
| 26 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 27 | It is also striking how far he took issue with Western critics of Ceauşescu 's Romania who saw it as a police-state pure and simple . |
| 28 | The so-called historical Jesus and the historic , biblical Christ , 1966 ) published in 1892 , he took issue with the underlying aims and presuppositions of the ‘ life of Jesus research ’ . |
| 29 | Having taken Sir Lewis to task over the delay in holding the agm and Mr Michel 's joining fee , Mr Middlemass was applauded when he took issue with the extraordinary motion to increase the employees ' discount on share options to 20 per cent . |
| 30 | It continues : in his nineteenth year … considering the uncertain term of human life , and the fearful end especially before the fleshly and the worldly , he took thought , by the inspiration of God , providently concerning himself ( remembering his end ) , lest he should be taken in the snares of sin . |