Example sentences of "took [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 2 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 3 | There was a large contingent of buyers from Eire who took 32 rams in total . |
| 4 | The beards were tested on a recent NASA space mission , where astronauts took ten-hour shifts putting the beards through their paces in a number of varied situations . |
| 5 | In 1952 , his best season when he took 75 wickets , Surridge became captain . |
| 6 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 8 | Adult logic took strange forms . |
| 9 | But Parks also took memorable portraits for Harpers Bazaar of subjects such as the surrealist patron Edward James , and of Noël Coward , who had some words of advice for the young photographer . |
| 10 | It was fair to say that , as soon as the company realized what was happening , it took prompt steps to certify the situation . |
| 11 | She took Bible-reading classes among her nurses , and tried to lead sinners to repentance , and Florence Nightingale was afraid this might damage the reputation of workhouse nursing . |
| 12 | There he delegated elementary instruction to an assistant , while he took advanced students , following the example of Jesus ( Mark 4 : 34 ) . |
| 13 | It took professional journals like Building News and foreign observers like Muthesius to recognize Nonconformity 's achievements . |
| 14 | It was put on display last night in the northern Belgian town of Onkerzele and was rolled with 9,300 tobacco leaves and took 334 hours to make . |
| 15 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 16 | There 's a , the person that took that words was your Moira |
| 17 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 18 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |
| 19 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 20 | Neil Kinnock took eight years to ditch the views of his mentor Aneurin Bevan , John Smith has taken a mere eight months to ditch those of Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 21 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 22 | He travelled with his party and the journey took eight months visiting America , Japan , Hong Kong , China , India , Egypt , Palestine , Turkey , and so homeward across Europe . |
| 23 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 24 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 25 | His incredible journey to safety took eight nights and seven days and beat the record of SAS founder-member Jack Sillito , who walked 150 miles in the Western Desert during the Second World War . |
| 26 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 27 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 28 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 29 | They also took private papers relating to the large South Ronaldsay family Mr and Mrs T had been trying to help , and a library book written by a social worker on sexual abuse . |
| 30 | One commonly heard complaint from relatives is that ‘ I was told she was too disturbed for the council day centre as they could n't stop her from wandering out ’ , yet ‘ The doctor at the day hospital said they only took short-term cases , people who could get better and move on . ’ |