Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet perhaps Thomas Hopkins and his wife took some solace in so commemorating the death of their eldest son . |
| 2 | The library of 4,500 antiquarian religious books assembled by him and his son took 16 days to auction in London in 1849 after his death . |
| 3 | He was very demoralized and his recovery took many weeks . |
| 4 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 5 | Almost equal , but not quite , because Luke still seemed to retain a vestige of control while she trembled wildly as his hands slid adroitly up over her ribcage to cup her breasts from beneath , lifting them to the swooping descent of his dark head ; and she heard him mutter intensely again just before his mouth took voluptuous possession of the heated hardness of one exquisitely sensitive nipple . |
| 6 | Whiteman , who played in the 1992 debacle , must have been spurred on by the memory as his rink took 13 shots over the last six ends while preventing the opposition from any further score . |