Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies . |
| 2 | In one hit-and-run case , one of the jurors had the effrontery to challenge the coroner 's authority , stating that he was a cyclist himself and that pedestrians were often at fault because they took insufficient care . |
| 3 | OF GBW topped the honours in the finals of the London Breweries Squash contest as he took top spot in the veterans event . |
| 4 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 5 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 6 | The domestic events of the spring of 1937 were not without importance but he took small part in them , and a cursory reading of the Cabinet minutes might suggest that he had already retired in mind . |
| 7 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 8 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |
| 9 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 10 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 11 | All that flashed through my head while I took one step out of the Ladies . |
| 12 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 13 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 14 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 15 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |
| 16 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 17 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 18 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 19 | it 's my go because I took this card . |
| 20 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 21 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 22 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 23 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 24 | Certainly men at the central station boasted proudly of the fact that they took more prisoners per year than any other division in the whole force . |
| 25 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 26 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 27 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 28 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |
| 29 | In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world . |