Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 OF GBW topped the honours in the finals of the London Breweries Squash contest as he took top spot in the veterans event .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 All that flashed through my head while I took one step out of the Ladies .
6 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 .
7 We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions .
8 it 's my go because I took this card .
9 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 .
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