Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] took [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 2 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 3 | If I only took the big parts and none of this TV crap I 'd just go away to film , and then when I was around I 'd really be around . |
| 4 | ‘ I just took an instant shine to him . |
| 5 | And I already took a half day off flexi leave . |
| 6 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 7 | Despite these I always took a last look at the course on the first day of the tournament . |
| 8 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 9 | She even took a few steps towards them . |
| 10 | The woman waited with a smile on her face , then sighed and took a cookie out for herself , from which she then took a good bite . |
| 11 | We then took a short cut through some alleyways . |
| 12 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 13 | They also took a thousand pounds cash . |
| 14 | And they now took a new name — the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . |
| 15 | After her death they certainly took the full brunt , Silvio in particular . |
| 16 | But Neath are backing the player 's insistence that he merely took a cold remedy . |
| 17 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 18 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 19 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 20 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 21 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 22 | He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment . |
| 23 | I reckon he just took the easy way out . ’ |
| 24 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 25 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 26 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 27 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |
| 28 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 29 | Although close to retirement , he still took an active part in teaching the University students , and the breadth of his knowledge embraced not only clinical forensic work , but also the most up-to-date laboratory tests . |
| 30 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |