Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [noun] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I took part in countless operations of this type from the Isle of Wight to Lowestoft , I never actually made any captures . |
| 2 | She sobbed as she took part in three-in-a-bed romps with Robin Wright — as her twisted husband Mick lay alongside watching . |
| 3 | Lucy Maycock trained at RADA , having first read English at Oxford , where she took part in many OUDS production , playing Juliet , Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Charlotte Corday in The Marat/Sade . |
| 4 | However , the marquis was looking at her with affection and she took courage in both hands . |
| 5 | They took part in various raids , including the bombing of Cologne in 1942 . |
| 6 | He was well known at the Maze Races where he took part in many heats with various friends , including Edward Wakefield , the Quaker from Moyallon . |
| 7 | Anselm then returned to Rome with the pope and stayed with him until Easter 1099 , when he took part in another Council . |
| 8 | Since he took power in 1959 Mr Castro has often disagreed with the Russians . |
| 9 | He was educated at Charterhouse and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he took firsts in classical honour moderations ( 1888 ) and literae humaniores ( 1890 ) . |
| 10 | There was also one piece of the jigsaw that now slotted into place : before June died , he took LSD in controlled circumstances with a therapist : ‘ I became conscious of very early emotions about not being wanted — feeling that I was a problem to my family as an infant . ’ |
| 11 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 12 | It took root in various places round the town — Terryhoogan ( or Ballinabeck , near Tandragee ) in 1756 , Clonmain in 1762 , Grange in 1764 , Kilmoriarty ( or Kilmararty , as the old form had it ) in 1767 , Derryanville before 1784 ( ‘ a little village out of all road , surrounded by bogs … thus God has His secret ones , in a little corner of the land … some of the liveliest Christians in the kingdom ’ ) . |