Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then we started the rehearsal scene and Rock Hudson walks in and he took one look at me and says , ‘ Where are my glasses ? ’ |
| 2 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 3 | The High Command , and the Tsar himself , especially after he took personal command in the summer of 1915 , were blamed for military incompetence . |
| 4 | It was only after he took two bullets in the thigh and wrist and a shotgun blast in the back , and his brother was murdered by rival gangs that he channelled his aggression into baseball . |
| 5 | Acute social divisions may indeed have induced violence , a disruption of settled married life and so on , but there is no need to assume that relationships within the working class were intrinsically any more lacking in feeling than relationships amongst other classes , just because they took different forms . |
| 6 | In another recent case , two-year-old James Austin , who had been left strapped into his baby seat by his mother , was driven away while she took some refuse to a rubbish dump some 50 yards from her parked car . |
| 7 | Australia , who had set Sri Lanka 522 to win after declaring their second innings at 513 for five , appeared to be coasting home when they took three wickets before lunch to reduce the touring side to 208 for six . |
| 8 | In July 1978 , his ambitions on the educational front were well stoked up and he took six CSEs . |
| 9 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 10 | Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat . |
| 11 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 12 | Would they wait now while he took another slice off the joint ? |
| 13 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 14 | Did you get any money back when you took that box of crisps back that time ? |
| 15 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 16 | Erm very attractive building , and I think in fact ten years ago when I took that photograph . |
| 17 | Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy-hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment . |
| 18 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 19 | Hampshire were only 66 ahead when he took earnest guard , but he shared in stands of 170 with Brown , and 70 with Stuart Boyce , and remained undefeated on the Friday morning with 110 . |