Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 3 | I took a retirement I took early retirement coming in the |
| 4 | Germany 's bishops were in exile when Bismarck , in 1879 , began to consider a restoration of relations with the Papacy , a process which took several years ( see also below , p. 220 ) . |
| 5 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 6 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |