Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] took [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 2 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 3 | The new administration duly took office on Dec. 10 , marking a return to civilian and democratic government following seven years of rule by successive military juntas . |
| 4 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 5 | With something scientific strapped to his chest , and wearing an extra watch , Jeff confidently took charge of Northwich Victoria v Wycombe Wanderers in the Vauxhall Conference . |
| 6 | Hassan 's visit to Spain eventually took place on Sept. 25-27 , 1989 , when three bilateral accords were signed . |
| 7 | Russia also took control of gold and diamonds on its territory [ for Kazakhstan 's control of gold reserves see p. 38538 ] . |
| 8 | A meeting duly took place on Sept. 18 , at the " peace village " of Panmunjom within the Demilitarized zone at which North Korea put forward its advocacy of a single UN seat in order to avoid continuing the country 's temporary division . |
| 9 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 10 | Demonstrations against the poll tax also took place in Manchester and those events were continuously reported on the local radio stations to which prisoners habitually listen . |
| 11 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 12 | Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section . |
| 13 | At about that time , a meeting allegedly took place between Nicholson , Hofmann and another of Hofmann 's associates , Henry Medlock , at which it was suggested that arsenic acid should be tried as an oxidising agent . |
| 14 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |
| 15 | The resulting increase in heavy chemical output mainly took place in Germany although some smaller producers , such as Austria-Hungary and Russia , made their appearance . |
| 16 | Local networks often took advantage of kinship ties . |
| 17 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 18 | The massacre really took place on Saint Peter 's Field , but a sharp writer on the radical Manchester Observer linked the outrage to the battle of Waterloo , coming up with the headline ‘ Peterloo ’ . |
| 19 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 20 | Her ladyship always took advice from art historians before she would even change as much the piping on a cushion . |
| 21 | The CNIAG later took part in discussions with the Raybestos workers and continued to share information with the workers by producing a series of leaflets on the hazards of asbestos and on the need for workers to organize autonomously from the trade union in order to defend their health and safety . |
| 22 | Markovic specifically took issue with Serbia 's decision to impose special duties on imports into the republic from Slovenia and Croatia , and from abroad , with effect from Nov. 1 . |
| 23 | WHO HAS ever heard of a popular tax The American colonists certainly took exception to Britain 's tea levy in 1773 . |
| 24 | In 1982 the Honduran government effectively took control of COLPROSUMAH by giving official recognition to a small splinter group . |
| 25 | BRITAIN yesterday took comfort from reports of an alleged overnight breach between the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , and the French on the need to set a date for a Community monetary union conference . |
| 26 | BRITAIN yesterday took comfort from reports of an alleged overnight breach between the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , and the French on the need to set a date for a Community monetary union conference . |
| 27 | Anti-US demonstrations in Tehran drew crowds of 2,000 on Jan. 18 and 5,000 on Jan. 21 ; demonstrations also took place in Orumiyeh , Karaj and Qom . |
| 28 | The government also took advantage of successes by the South African cricket team in the cricket world cup in Australia to argue that without reform , South Africa would once again have to withdraw from the international sporting scene . |
| 29 | Hindley immediately took hold of Heathcliff and pushed him upstairs . |
| 30 | Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's resignation as Foreign Minister formally took effect on May 18 [ not May 17 as given on p. 38872 ] as anticipated . |