Example sentences of "[pron] took [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took up a new hold at 500 feet over the pilot and was pleased to see the dinghy on the water , fully inflated , between the helicopter and the pilot — and upwind of him ! |
| 2 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 3 | And then this , this time I say well I 'm going to take away some money and I took away a negative amount and you 've finished up with more . |
| 4 | ‘ I have full responsibility for fund-raising and publicity and because I took on a new post it means I am introducing my own ideas in consultation with the directors and chairman . |
| 5 | I took over a hundred members to the rally in Hyde Park , erm two thirds of my workforce , and it was magnificent to see all the trade unionists there , especially the G M B banners . |
| 6 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 7 | Pliny describes a much sought-after metal called Corinthian bronze , an alloy of copper with gold and silver , which took on a purplish hue . |
| 8 | She took on a black lad and because she did that she was ostracised from the rest of the community . |
| 9 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 10 | Now she has moved on again — in late October she took up a new appointment in Rotherham . |
| 11 | Grinning , she took up a seductive pose and started to wriggle her hips for him , swirling round sensually and then slowly undoing the clasp at her back . |
| 12 | She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back . |
| 13 | Forcing herself to be patient , she took down a leather-bound copy of Grimms ' Fairy Tales and opened the pages . |
| 14 | From a drawer she took out a cardboard box , and laid it on the table . |
| 15 | The Captain had no sooner opened his mouth to say : ‘ Your husband is n't in … ? ’ than she took out a crumpled handkerchief and huge tears were rolling down her fat cheeks . |
| 16 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 17 | One woman , who took up a new career in midlife , described how her mother , who had always had a great appetite for life , now seemed.to live through her . |
| 18 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 19 | This ‘ seeing God ’ , a project not just for the afterlife , not just ‘ jam tomorrow ’ , was the high ambition of anyone who took up a penitential life . |
| 20 | Everyone in Scotland knows of the famous Glasgow case involving a female complainer who took out a private prosecution in such a case . |
| 21 | For a man who took out a 25-year mortgage endowment policy at the age of 29 with a £30-a-month premium , the payout on a policy maturing this year has been cut from £62,543 to £59,602 , which represents an annual rate of return of 13 per cent . |
| 22 | If you took out a unit-linked endowment mortgage some years ago , now is the time to check it out . |
| 23 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 24 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 25 | This resentment was strengthened still further in 1898 when as part of the struggle for slices of the Chinese ‘ melon ’ Russia herself took out a twenty-five year lease on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula . |
| 26 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 27 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 28 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 29 | How many of us can say that someone changed when they took on a certain job or changed when something happened at work . |
| 30 | He took over a small department and greatly expanded it , planning a large new building , which ensured further expansion . |