Example sentences of "took [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class . |
| 2 | He took the principal part in the synthesis and interpretation of all the gravity observations made in India over the period 1908–13 and made an excellent attempt to interpret these data in the light of evidence recently reported by the American geodesist , J. F. Hayford , as a result of similar surveys in the United States . |
| 3 | His budget of March 1987 took the standard rate of income tax down to 27p , and in all a huge budget surplus of over £16 billion was recorded . |
| 4 | I took the standard right turn and watched as he stopped a little way out to sea , turned , and stared at us . |
| 5 | Each year on the Sunday — the day before the fair started — the family took the late Sunday afternoon walk down Exeter Street , along St. Nicholas Road , over the fourteenth-century Harnham Bridge to The Swan Inn Field . |
| 6 | It really took the late Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to . |
| 7 | The bride , in a white wedding gown , and the groom , in a tuxedo , clung tightly to each other as they took the terrifying plunge . |
| 8 | Later , I took the then editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Screeton , there . |
| 9 | Julia Noon , aged 12 , of St Anne 's on Sea , Lancashire , took the politic and patriotic route and wrote to 10 Downing Street to find out the Prime Minister 's favourite foods . |
| 10 | Carrington and Grant disappeared down the for'ard companionway while Talbot and Van Gelder took the after one . |
| 11 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 12 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the soft parts of most dinosaurs took the right evolutionary path . |
| 14 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 15 | We would wish a second investigator to consider whether his predecessor took the right route , whether all the relevant leads were followed , whether sufficient attention was paid to evidence which was inconsistent with the working hypothesis , and whether the methods used ( particularly in interrogation ) did not distort the result . |
| 16 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 17 | The Sergeant came up from the rear to join Charles as they left the Carriageway and took the long asphalt path that leads diagonally away to Marble Arch . |
| 18 | Teclis took the long view . |
| 19 | On fine days , he took the long way round by Jubilee Wharf . |
| 20 | Then he checked on the car , took the long walk back to his serviced apartment , and spent a restless night staring at the stain patterns on his ceiling . |
| 21 | Seeing Nicandra flinching on the cut grass verge of the avenue , he took the long , supple driving whip out of its case and flicked his horse into a more dashing trot . |
| 22 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 23 | I took the long cut home . |
| 24 | She took the long way home , and walked slowly . |
| 25 | Shiona took the long way back to Loch Lomond , via Perth and Comrie and Loch Earn , stopping for a meal at a wayside hotel , then heading south via Glen Dochart just after nine o'clock . |
| 26 | Jan Irving ( Wirral ) was another to win at Derby , where he took the long jump with 6.64 metres . |
| 27 | We took the long way , on the way back to the bus stop |
| 28 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 29 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 30 | One of the winners is 16-year-old Sally Peattie , who took the Young Guardian prize , part of the Lloyds competition . |