Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 2 | Eighteen months ago I took early retirement . |
| 3 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | After his retirement there was no place where he took more delight in an invitation to talk than in one of the Cambridge churches or one of the college chapels . |
| 5 | BELFAST karate girl Siobhan Brunton recently returned triumphant from a European karate competition in Prague where she took fifth place . |
| 6 | Pipe Major Tom Buchanan and the Boys and Girls of Monkstown Mossley School Band had a glorious day when they took second prize and Best Corps of Drums in the Novice Juvenile Band section . |
| 7 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 8 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 9 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 10 | In 1952 , his best season when he took 75 wickets , Surridge became captain . |