Example sentences of "took [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took each other , body and soul , for granted when we were little , Harriet , we do n't quarrel , we do n't . |
| 2 | The Princesse and Portia looked on as mother and daughter , now almost of an equal height , one blonde , the other dark , took each other in . |
| 3 | So we tended to subordinate any feelings of anger for the wellbeing of the whole community.We took each other with all our faults . |
| 4 | In their dreams their brains took each other hostage |
| 5 | They took each other 's clothes off more slowly this time , and examined each other 's bodies in more detail . |
| 6 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 7 | For an overview we took each party 's average score across the four party images , and each leader 's average score across the twelve leader images . |
| 8 | Next , he took each hand in turn , and smeared the greasy oil between her fingers , and thence upwards to the slope of her shapely shoulders . |
| 9 | Donna took each weapon from the case in turn , checked it and replaced it . |
| 10 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 11 | ‘ Carry On Screaming worked because we both took that nonsense so seriously . ’ |
| 12 | We took that wall to pieces with supreme care , with an almost surgical skill . |
| 13 | The Greek prime minister , Mr Constantine Mitsotakis , looks downright incompetent : at first he said he would pardon the guilty men , then took that back and said he would merely release them . |
| 14 | " You took that money ? " he asked at last . |
| 15 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 16 | Not all of the women who took that decision were separatist by any means , but the fact that we had rejected men was not a gesture of feminism alone . |
| 17 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 18 | And who took that decision ? |
| 19 | who took that decision ? |
| 20 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |
| 21 | yeah but on the other hand Geoff if they took that attitude with everybody , nobody would |
| 22 | There may be ten of us on Scotland Place on a Saturday night when the Morning Star got chucked out and the licensee was a feller called Pat McEwen ( he had a marine store dealer 's in Chaucer Street and took that pub ) . |
| 23 | This includes the comment under 1028 that Cnut drove Olaf from Norway and took that country , the entry on his return to England in 1029 , and that on Olaf 's death at the hands of his countrymen in 1030 . |
| 24 | Swift took that secret with him to the grave . |
| 25 | ‘ You think he took that way ? |
| 26 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 27 | Armadail Swift , your great grandfather , went there too , before he took that trip in the giant balloon and was never seen again . |
| 28 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 29 | Before I took that stand , I made it plain what I was going to do . |
| 30 | I mentioned to her about renting , she said that she had n't , you know , took that idea out the window but she said the only thing is your at the beck and call of the landlord . |