Example sentences of "i took [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took at least two hours before reluctantly passing it over . |
| 2 | On each occasion I took at least half an hour to get ready , chose my clothes carefully , brushed my teeth , put my earrings in , wore bright-red lipstick . |
| 3 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 4 | The reasons underlying that decision and the factors that my right hon. Friend and I took into account are fully set out in the letter of 1 November to the chairman of the Countryside Council for Wales , copies of which have been placed in the Library . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ’ Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings . |
| 6 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 7 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
| 8 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 9 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 10 | And I think now these are some I took for your |
| 11 | Following our site meeting , I took on board all the points you made . |
| 12 | Mystified , I took off the small velvet beret I was wearing and , miraculously , the vast hall was quiet , and I learned that the chant had been Cha-peau ! |
| 13 | I took off the earrings and went to find a phone box . |
| 14 | I took off the yellow waistcoat with its white lining and hung it on a hanger , and I took off my shoes , but rather like George I still felt myself to be on duty , so I switched off the light and lay on top of the bedclothes watching the black Canadian land slide by , while the free northern show went on above for hours in the sky . |
| 15 | I took off the stupid visor and placed it behind the conifer . |
| 16 | It 's bits I took off the sheets is that , that I er |
| 17 | This is a picture which I took of him myself . |
| 18 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 19 | And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains . |
| 20 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
| 21 | It was the last photo I took of him . |
| 22 | That 's the photos I took of it , yeah at the palace . |
| 23 | Well where 's the one I took of you in the tree ? |
| 24 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 25 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 26 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 27 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 28 | The issue arose when I took to Cabinet committee my proposals on railway electrification . |
| 29 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 30 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |