Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] took [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 2 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 3 | Suddenly he took the visionary image of his own manhood into his arms , his ruffled hair against the stone curls , and burst into a storm of silent weeping . |
| 4 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 5 | So he took a young lamb , whose mother had died , and carried it in a basket across the fields to Mrs Hurst 's house . |
| 6 | So he took the youngest brother to the village where the good Christian girl lived . |
| 7 | So he took an extraordinary step , going directly to Moktadir , the Moslem ruler of Saragossa , and pledging his sword and men to the Moorish prince . |
| 8 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 9 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |
| 10 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 11 | And he just he took no diving notice and they all were giggling at me . |
| 12 | Finally he took a whole lot of bottles out in the hope that in the ensuing muddle they would all finally be fitted in . |
| 13 | Finally he took the bass part of some airs of Handel … and played the most beautiful melody on it and in such a manner that everyone was amazed . |
| 14 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 15 | Fifteen minutes later she took a deep breath , desperately trying to steady the nerves fluttering like trapped birds in the pit of her stomach . |
| 16 | And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt . |
| 17 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 18 | Now he took a deep breath and forced himself to keep calm . |
| 19 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 20 | Every so often he took a square-shaped flask from the inside pocket of his coat and stuck it to his lips like a trumpet . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 22 | Eventually he took a short lease on a much smaller house in Upper Brook Street . |
| 23 | Eventually he took a hefty drop in income by abandoning the lucrative corridors of merchant bank Kleinwort Benson . |
| 24 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 25 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 26 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 27 | Then she took a deep breath . |
| 28 | Then she took a deep breath . |
| 29 | Her voice trailed off a moment , then she took a deep breath . |
| 30 | Then she took a deep breath , telling herself not to be such a fool , and stand her ground . |