Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [adj] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld . |
| 2 | ‘ I took two pills that evening — they 've never affected me like that before . ’ |
| 3 | She took gentle walks each day . |
| 4 | His neat modern home — his study stuffed with the 100 or so original runners for the 1989 Booker Prize , whose judging panel he is chairing — is still close to the University of Birmingham , where he became Professor of English in 1976 , but he took early retirement two years ago . |
| 5 | He took 78 wickets that season at 25.21 , and put his tall , broad frame to good use at the batting crease with 541 runs ( 17.45 ) , including a 22-minute half-century at Chesterfield . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 7 | Sink It took two people 90 minutes to wash up , dry , clean sink and draining board and put the dishes away . |