Example sentences of "he took [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he took off the pendulous wig , wiped his face on the yellowing lace handkerchief dripping out of the over-ornate and antique jacket and revealed himself as a young man . |
| 2 | He took off the hired robe and lay down naked on the bench . |
| 3 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 4 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 5 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 6 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 7 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 8 | Basic to it is a distinction , which he took from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) , between ‘ natural science ’ and ‘ moral science ’ , which he rendered in German as Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft respectively . |
| 9 | He took in the rising storm signals and tried to make himself look serious . |
| 10 | The sandy-haired man 's eyes narrowed as he took in the possessive gesture , but he made no comment on it . |