Example sentences of "took a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | As disc records took a greater hold of the market , some cylinder companies turned to discs ; but many of them eschewed paper labels . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This time the Smiths took a greater part in designing an intervention and deciding what they were to do . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1926 , Lewis 's own secret career as a poet took a great stride forward as he completed his long narrative poem Dymer . |
| 6 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 7 | Even before the crash I took a great deal of exercise — you have to work at staying in shape . |
| 8 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 9 | She had what was generally regarded by other top secretaries as the most interesting job in European component operations , and took a great personal interest in her work . |
| 10 | He took a great interest in young people , not only during the course of his duties at the Salzburg Mozarteum , but also beyond that . |
| 11 | Yes , said Surkov , they took a great interest in my work ; and Rozanov nodded . |
| 12 | He took a great interest in the theological implications of transplant surgery . |
| 13 | ( Bill ) Brakspear , Dr. Alan Hartley , Micky Watson and Jim Daw — all took a great pride and interest in this section , feeling honoured to be involved . |
| 14 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 15 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 16 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 17 | She took a great fancy to me , used to buy me presents . |
| 18 | She took a great interest in the Factota scheme , and helped the other two to make out a rough draft of the ‘ handbill ’ that Mr Dare had suggested . |
| 19 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 20 | Although Stephen 's trips to the mills became less frequent as he appointed capable managers , the farms on the estate and the timber business still took a great deal of his life and Tamar found that time hung heavily . |
| 21 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 22 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 23 | It was a sparse audience and Ivy took a great interest in it . |
| 24 | Balancing between them took a great deal of agility . |
| 25 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |
| 26 | He took a great gulp of the fresh air , enough to sustain him . |
| 27 | In earlier centuries , excessive child-bearing and its short- and long-term consequences took a great toll among young women , but early in the twentieth century a fall in mortality from tuberculosis , somewhat later in maternal mortality , and the diseases particular to women 's reproductive functions , left males more vulnerable than females . |
| 28 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 29 | In any event he did a very professional job with me and took a great weight off Laura 's shoulders . |
| 30 | In addition to composition , Messiaen took a great interest in the younger generation of composers , teaching composition and analysis to Boulez and Jean-Louis Martinet amongst others . |