Example sentences of "he took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Canada he took every military course available to him . |
| 2 | He took every opportunity to learn while arranging pillows and giving comfort . |
| 3 | Consequently , following his accession to the throne in 1625 , he took every opportunity to advance the ecclesiastical careers of the Arminians , and by 1633 when William Laud succeeded George Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , they had gained control of virtually all the most important high offices in the English church . |
| 4 | In the Congo he had hunted big game for the first time and in Abyssinia he took every opportunity to do so , and conveyed his enthusiasm to me when I was only a small boy . |
| 5 | Because Mr McWhirter-he who had put money into the school was in a privileged position , and he took every advantage of it . |
| 6 | though he took every precaution , as I felt , to render his own self invisible . |
| 7 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 8 | And yet he took no steps to reintroduce it in later editions . |
| 9 | He was sufficiently confused by the English way of repressing emotion to characterise kind Hearts and Coronets as characteristic of Ealing movies in being emotionally quite frozen , ’ and so fastidiously determined to stay aloof from bland commercialism that he took no interest in the horror genre ( even though his later use of the Frankenstein story in his 1982 film Britannia Hospital suggests how much of a contribution he might have made in this area ) . |
| 10 | I kept waving to Mike but he took no notice , and if I hang about here Otley will only ask me to fetch him a slice of ox and then I shall be sick . |
| 11 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 12 | If he took no interest in gardening before his illness , he may find it refreshing to be outdoors looking at the different colours and shapes of the plants , smelling their fragrance , and watching the insects and birds they attract . |
| 13 | Yet he took no interest in manners , but in the substance of life only . |
| 14 | And he took no pleasure in his food , neither could he sleep by night , nor would he lift up his eyes from the ground , nor stir out of his house , nor commune with his friends , but turned from them in silence as if the breath of his shame would taint them . |
| 15 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 16 | Many of his friends were Covenanters but , although he supported their cause in principal and loathed the barbarous conduct of the dreaded Dragoons , he took no active part in the rebellion . |
| 17 | He listened politely , and if he showed no concern at least he took no offence and we parted on good terms . |
| 18 | He took no risks for he was frightened of his master . |
| 19 | I sighed heavily and he took no notice . |
| 20 | He took no share of the Church lands for himself , and his generous entertaining often caused him financial difficulties . |
| 21 | His mother tried to scold him but he took no notice . |
| 22 | When he was given work at a lathe that rounded and spiralled chairs ' legs he took no advice from the foreman , and instead watched the man next to him to study the working of the machine . |
| 23 | He took no documents with him , but he hoped to persuade Pope Alexander II to confirm Canterbury 's primacy on general grounds of tradition . |
| 24 | But although he talked of acting as a craft , he took no trouble over it . ’ |
| 25 | The Fifth was choking in its own certainties , and though he took no pleasure in the thought of losing his life , he would not mourn his removal from this hard and unpoetic Dominion . |
| 26 | But like his father he took no satisfaction in the thought . |
| 27 | He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government . |
| 28 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 29 | After the death of his wife in 1909 he took no interest in the society of women , he had little interest in food and he was a teetotaller . |
| 30 | He took no part in the digging but squatted on the edge of the ditch , fidgeting backwards and forwards , sometimes nibbling and then starting up suddenly as though he could hear some sound in the wood . |