Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] took [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 2 | I then took my own aircraft to Kalafrana , landed and moored onto the slipway buoy . |
| 3 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 4 | I recently took my four-year-old son , Martin , to visit his Great-gran . |
| 5 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 6 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 7 | Shortly after this , Clare started to swap babysitting evenings with Stephanie , a mother who also took her small son to Mrs Gooden . |
| 8 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 9 | She also took her own soldiery a step further . |
| 10 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 11 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 12 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 13 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 14 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 15 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 16 | Without her , Perkin would have had his way but he finally took his dangerous hand off the shaft . |
| 17 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 18 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 19 | He regularly took his entire cabinet to meet the people in popular forums , making himself accountable in a way his main western critics never would . |
| 20 | The reason why our homes were so cold was that the people who designed them never took our severe winter climate into consideration . |