Example sentences of "and [pron] took [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you took great pains to stress that you 've steered well clear of them , ’ he pointed out . |
| 2 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |
| 3 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 4 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 5 | Karajan saw his orchestra have major successes in this symphony under two guest conductors , Barbirolli and Bernstein , and he took good care to record it himself ( magnificently ) in 1982 , also at a Berlin Festival Week concert which was recorded ‘ live ’ , as was Bernstein 's . |
| 6 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 7 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 8 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 10 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 11 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 12 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 13 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 14 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 15 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 16 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |