Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] took [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 3 | Brian Farrell , defending , said the action ‘ set the rot in ’ and as time went on she took larger sums of money , spending it on alcohol , cigarettes , clothing and bills leaving her with nothing tangible to show . |
| 4 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 5 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 6 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 7 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 8 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 9 | Then he took indecent photographs of some of them . |
| 10 | Then he took two packets of his swimming biscuits and a carton of orange from the back of the fridge , so his Mum would n't notice . |
| 11 | Then he took two detectives to the Queenshill Bridge over the river Severn , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on the third day of the trial . |
| 12 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 13 | Those four-footed mercenaries must have met someone else who took better care of them because they never returned . |
| 14 | No , neither were we when we took two trips to London in a fortnight . |
| 15 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 16 | He had toured New Zealand with the young 1956–57 Australian ( non-Test ) side returning there three years later , again under Ian Craig 's captaincy , and in 1961 his travels were extended with a season at Colne , in Lancashire , where he took 70 wickets at 12 and hit 706 runs at 35 . |
| 17 | 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 . |