Example sentences of "and took [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 2 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 3 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 4 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 5 | Duncan opened the folder and took out the slim report . |