Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 2 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 3 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 4 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 5 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 6 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |