Example sentences of "[coord] he take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his research ended when his grant ran out , and he took a mundane job as a sub-editor on the Sunday Times colour magazine just before the Wapping dispute began . |
| 2 | He had squirrel eyes which darted about and he took a good look at her legs beneath her short skirt . |
| 3 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 4 | Marc 's face was suffused with colour and he took a violent step forward . |
| 5 | It alerted him at once and he took a tight grip on her arm as she swung away to leave him . |
| 6 | Curwen 's estates lay on the west Cumberland coalfield , and he took a particular interest in the collieries inherited from his father and his second wife , as well as others which he purchased and leased in the area . |
| 7 | His mouth worked , but nothing happened , and he took a quick swig of whisky . |
| 8 | And he took a poisonous viper and forced its mouth open , and inserted a glass under its fangs and drew out a couple of drops of deadly poison . |
| 9 | And he took the front piece out of that magazine . |
| 10 | The sarcasm seemed to relieve him a little and he took the black strop of leather from its nail and opened the razor . |
| 11 | He walked to the bed , and he sat , and he took the gaunt hand in his own . |
| 12 | He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there . |
| 13 | And he took an old newspaper from the heap . |
| 14 | From early youth Cayley was a keen proponent of parliamentary reform , and he took an active part in local Whig politics . |
| 15 | The cold wind ruffles his hair and makes him flinch for a moment , but it is refreshing after the stale warmth of the house , and he takes a deep breath or two on his way to the garage . |
| 16 | Fumaroli 's book is a polemic and he takes a savage pleasure in destructive rather than constructive criticism of Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture . |
| 17 | And he takes a particular interest in his garden . |
| 18 | Last April he outpointed the fancied George Collins , and he takes a dim view of last week 's easy win by Laing over Collins at Reading . |
| 19 | LUCAN left and went to see friends in Sussex , but he took a strange route . |