Example sentences of "took a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt . |
| 2 | I invited him into the house and there , in the bright light , I took a closer look at him . |
| 3 | From the masthead Tilda , having sailed out to sea with Grace , took a closer survey of the Reach . |
| 4 | Although the survey forms took a closer look at unauthorised absence and aimed to collect data on pupils seen unequivocally as truants , it was plain that condoned absence was a major problem for headteachers . |
| 5 | I took a closer look at our visitor . |
| 6 | When he took a closer look he was horrified . |
| 7 | I took a closer look and discovered it was blood running from his head . |
| 8 | Once again , the government took a stricter view . |
| 9 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 10 | Murphy , Mackenzie and Roberts took a tighter hold on midfield and wingers McMahon and Reeve , the younger , came more into the game , but the ball would not quite run for Sharman at centre-forward . |
| 11 | As disc records took a greater hold of the market , some cylinder companies turned to discs ; but many of them eschewed paper labels . |
| 12 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 13 | This time the Smiths took a greater part in designing an intervention and deciding what they were to do . |
| 14 | He took a greater interest in the phenomenon of bureaucracy than previous Marxists and wrote extensively about the ‘ betrayal ’ of the Revolution by self-seeking bureaucrats who had destroyed the proletarian and revolutionary nature of the Bolshevik Party . |
| 15 | Death and destruction were meted out by both sides , but there can be little doubt that the rebels carried a greater burden of responsibility than the Republicans , for their repressive actions took a higher human toll and they , not the Republicans , had acted against legality . |
| 16 | The Pringle/Nick Faldo collection of clothing took a higher share of the U.K. market . |
| 17 | Prince von Bülow during his tenure of the imperial chancellorship in 1900 – 09 took a higher view than any of his predecessors of the importance of the press and gave frequent newspaper interviews , while the German government , and William II himself , reacted strongly to the hostile attitude of the Times and its Berlin correspondent , George Saunders . |
| 18 | ‘ I say , ’ the Times reader stood up and dithered while Kelly took a firmer hold of Broom-Parker 's bristling moustache . |
| 19 | I took a firmer grip , squeezed tightly and immediately a cloven foot shot out like a whip lash and smacked me solidly on the knee . |
| 20 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 21 | The Government 's stance took a further knock yesterday when the Conservative Bow Group published a survey showing senior British industrialists were not as vehemently opposed to the Charter as ministers . |
| 22 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 23 | Around the same time , Parliament took a further step towards excluding the dead from the inner cities by taking power to close churchyards . |
| 24 | More gloom at MTM , in breach of banking covenants , took a further 49p off the shares to 25p . |
| 25 | Southampton2 QPR1 SOUTHAMPTON took a further tentative step away from the relegation zone courtesy of another crucial intervention from the emerging Alan Shearer . |
| 26 | Ian Tonkin clocked 12 mins. 58 to improve 16 positions and Owen Pettifor took a further ten with 12 mins. 59 . |
| 27 | The money-lender gave her £20 and took a further charge on her furniture — Bill of Sale no 1 . |
| 28 | Suspicious that the bluish tinge was a little too faint , and the whiff of avgas only slight , he took a further sample . |
| 29 | The descent to Base Camp took a further two days . |
| 30 | It took a further two decades before ‘ the elderly ’ were once more to experience the high profile that they had achieved in the debates of the 1940s and 1950s concerning their position and role in the economy . |