Example sentences of "took some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Educated in Paris and Vienna , he took some art classes . |
| 2 | Those batteries were big , heavy glass things and took some carrying , particularly on a hot day . |
| 3 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 4 | Last year , I took some English . |
| 5 | In addition to the latest tapes by the Beatles , Joni Mitchell , Bob Dylan , Van Morrison and Neil Young , we took some reference books on shells , fishes and birds — and an 1890 edition of Wallace 's classic The Malay Archipelago . |
| 6 | It is very probable that Grey took some part in Leapor 's subscription . |
| 7 | I took some work to show him and he was very generous about it . ’ |
| 8 | She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table . |
| 9 | and took some bread for the ducks |
| 10 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 11 | Of course , since they were not involved in these groups these needs failed to be expressed to the city council , although the two umbrella groups , NSCDC and NSLC , took some responsibility for this . |
| 12 | Mrs Clamp shook her head once more , went to the sink , reached up and over while on her tip-toes , turned on the hot water , rinsed her hands , wiped them on her blue-check , bri-nylon work-coat and took some cheese from the bike . |
| 13 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 14 | It always took some while for the Thing to wake up . |
| 15 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 16 | And in fact , though perhaps it is shocking to admit it , we took some advantage of this dreadful argument during the campaign : we said we did not want to bring personalities into the election , but of course it was important that members of the Council should be responsible people who would not take advantage of their ‘ special position ’ . |
| 17 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 18 | In fact Lewis took some pride in his severe , no-nonsense attitude towards Eliot — " He does n't come in here disguised like Westminster Abbey ! " he told one friend . |
| 19 | He took some jam . |
| 20 | He returned the phone to its table and slid the notebook into his pocket ; it took some forcing , but it went . |
| 21 | Yet perhaps Thomas Hopkins and his wife took some solace in so commemorating the death of their eldest son . |
| 22 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 23 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I fixed up months ago to meet my parents in East Berlin today and took some holiday for it , ’ fumed one man . |
| 25 | Tarred timbers covered in grit — unlike the gates at Southampton — protected the caisson 's sides , and the men took some cover behind these timbers ' projections when the Penhouet ships opened accurate fire with their 20mm guns . |
| 26 | He chewed his way through a large and over-greasy midday meal , drank more beer than he ought to have done , took some laudanum with his brandy and water to give him sleep and felt his brain ripped open by a nightmare which wolfed down his mind in the open bleeding mouths of women . |
| 27 | The Fundació has its premises on loan from the local government for fifty years , which is fortunate as the building took some finding , and cost Pta . |
| 28 | Then he took some money out of his pocket and paid for it . |
| 29 | He took some money from his pocket and gave it to the taxi driver . |
| 30 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |