Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] took the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 2 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 3 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 4 | The afrancesados were the collaborators of the War of Independence — the timid , the misguided , the conformists by nature who took the French side against the patriots . |
| 5 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 6 | ‘ That you ’ The identity of the offender can be proved by the person who took the false report stating who he took it from . |
| 7 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |
| 8 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
| 9 | The man , a publishing consultant , said : ‘ I was in the front coach of the Bournemouth train which took the full impact of the crash and where most of the 35 died . ’ |
| 10 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 11 | By the third decade of that century , the idea of a prime minister had emerged and in its first physical manifestation it took the imposing form of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 12 | At the end of the concert he took the four children back to Great Meadow . |
| 13 | You can only get to Rudolfo 's by the road we took the other day when they found the car- or else on foot there 's a bit of a patch half a kilometre on from here — and in any case Rudolfo wo n't be down until tomorrow , being Palm Sunday . |
| 14 | From the centre he took the flat velour package of gems and held them out . |
| 15 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 16 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 17 | Yep , the stunning Turrican 2 emulates its predecessor which took the Best Game award last year . |
| 18 | With her free hand she took the golden decoration from him , examining it with care . |
| 19 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 20 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 21 | And with dignity he took the two glasses over to the bar . |
| 22 | As much as anything it represents the conviction which took the communist leadership of a proto-state into and through two cataclysmic conflicts with a tenacity and disregard of human life that has characterized religious , revolutionary and patriotic wars . |
| 23 | It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself . |
| 24 | In 1979 and 1980 , Zeng spent his summers on cycling holidays to Hangzhou and Shanghai , and the following year he took the unprecedented step of applying to his work unit for extended leave to travel , even threatening to resign if his wishes were not granted . |
| 25 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |