Example sentences of "took down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took down the picture of Uncle John and put it in the drawer of his desk . |
| 2 | P.C. Foster took down the relevant particulars and then escorted Woolridge to the cells . |
| 3 | He took down the end one , and carried it to his desk . |
| 4 | Agnes did not make the mistake now of asking her customer how much he intended to spend on the acid drops ; she reached up and took down the jar and , tilting it , tipped some acid drops into the scale ; then , putting the glass lid back onto the jar , she returned the whole to the shelf before once again blowing into a small paper bag and depositing the sweets inside . |
| 5 | Bruce went to the book shelf and took down the Mackenzie Bible . |
| 6 | ‘ He cast me in the role of a sort of footballing Dick Whittington , and took down the vases from the mantelpiece to represent my stepping-stones to fame , ’ Bastin recalls . |
| 7 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 8 | They took down the bucket labelled ‘ Buoyancy ’ and experimented with stones , shells , pieces of wood , metal bottle tops , forks , sponges , plastic boats and animals , plastic bobbins and two plastic cups , one of which sinks when filled with water and the other which floats just under the surface . |
| 9 | He took down the lengthy list of produce prices , all in US dollars and cents , eradicated the zeros or ‘ nulls ’ which indicated a space in the message , and according to the day of the month set the lines of figures against prepared lines of letters . |
| 10 | The troops who lined the streets at his execution kept the spectators out of earshot , but on the platform were two clerks who took down the King 's last speech in shorthand and , somewhat surprisingly , it was published in the London newspapers . |
| 11 | Video producer Rob Small reveals : ‘ When we took down the lighting rig at the end of the shoot soot from the candles left black patches on the ceiling . |
| 12 | I proudly took down the details in my pristine notebook and could n't wait to read the proof as soon as my painstaking , if short , report was set . |
| 13 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 14 | I took down the curtains , the pretty curtains that she had made , because they hid my window and made the earth smaller . |
| 15 | He moved back to the chest of drawers and took down the photograph of Tatyana Nowak and her husband on Westminster Bridge . |
| 16 | He took down the painting and planned to leave with it , but then he heard Sabine and a man shouting in the lounge . |
| 17 | Spruce took down the names she gave him without comment . |
| 18 | Gabriel ignored Lucie 's obvious desire to be left alone , and took down the canvas bag from the nail behind the door . |
| 19 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 20 | I took down the battered , broken-spined A-Z I keep taped to the driver 's sun visor and pretended to be looking something up . |
| 21 | But the controller there took down the details incorrectly and sent an ambulance to Falkirk . |