Example sentences of "took [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battalions , Northumberland Fusiliers and the actions in which it took part during the 1914–18 War . |
| 2 | Keith and Tim took part at the Central Pool in Reading . |
| 3 | Spain and Portugal took part for the first time , having signed accession protocols on Nov. 14 , 1988 ( see pp. 36105-06 ; 36429 ) . |
| 4 | Among other multilateral contacts , Albanian delegations took part for the first time in a range of regional meetings , including a conference of Mediterranean chambers of commerce in April and one on Mediterranean water sources in May . |
| 5 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 6 | Seven years ago Norman decided their exploits needed to be remembered and started compiling a record of all former cadets who took part in the Anglo-American training operation . |
| 7 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 8 | Two police forces and an airline took part in the 350-mile dash to make sure newlyweds Mark and Jan Hemmingway jetted off for a fortnight in the Seychelles . |
| 9 | His division , having seen a great deal of dogged fighting on and around Ruweisat before the Alamein offensive , had been lightly engaged in the great action itself , though of course , their guns took part in the famous opening barrage . |
| 10 | About 200 guests , including representatives from the contractor firms , took part in the outdoor Mass and barbecue — called ‘ mamona ’ in Casanare — held near the construction site on the Alto del Aceite Mesa . |
| 11 | Early in 1656 he was appointed rear-admiral of the fleet being sent against Spain under Generals Robert Blake [ q.v. ] and Edward Mountagu ( later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) , and took part in the long blockade of Cadiz . |
| 12 | Twenty golfers took part in the annual event and plans are being laid for a Fine Earthenware matchplay knockout competition next year . |
| 13 | MEG took part in the annual pilgrimage by erecting a marquee at the foot of the mountain where they displayed an exhibition of contrasting photographs of Mayo now and the aftermath of mining in Avoca and elsewhere in Ireland . |
| 14 | But Philo says that many Gentiles — that is , I presume , sympathizers — took part in the annual festival on the island of Pharos to celebrate the translation of the LXX ( Vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 15 | He travelled abroad incessantly , making at least two major foreign visits a year : in 1989 , for instance , he carried out official visits to Britain , France , Finland and West Germany , visited Cuba , East Germany and China , took part in the first-ever summit between the Soviet Union and Ireland during a stop-over at Shannon airport , and still found time to meet the new US President George Bush in December after a state visit to Italy and a first-ever meeting with the Pope . |
| 16 | He also took part in the final ceremony of initiation into manhood which ends with a mass hugging . |
| 17 | PUPILS and staff of Upton Hall Convent School on the Wirral took part in the 1992 Amnesty International Christmas Card Campaign . |
| 18 | Lynda Clifford did a sponsored aerobic session , Sue Tons and her family took part in the Great North Walk , Cycle Ride and Run , and Gary Bainbridge joined them for the Run . |
| 19 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 20 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 21 | Consequently , none of the 13 players who took part in the European Championship tie against Germany in Sweden ten months ago , remains in Roxburgh 's plans . |
| 22 | After a bad attack of malaria , Macleod worked in the Kimberley diamond mines , then took part in the Zulu War against Cetaweyo . |
| 23 | On 30 January I took part in the Prime Minister 's discussions with President Yeltsin , following which the British-Russian joint declaration and an agreement on consular posts were signed . |
| 24 | A different group of five- , eight- and ten-year-old children took part in the deductive marking experiment . |
| 25 | He subsequently took part in the regional gravity surveys of Burma ( 1910–11 ) and southern and central India ( 1912–14 ) . |
| 26 | Blake also took part in the joint planning meetings that were held between the CIA and MI6 during one of which , in December 1953 , the Berlin tunnel operation was approved . |
| 27 | He was one of four prelates who refused to do fealty to Edward III in January 1327 , although he took part in the new king 's coronation in February . |
| 28 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 29 | The EC commissioner for external affairs , Frans Andriessen , who took part in the first stage of the negotiations in New York last Friday , will report on progress to Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg today . |
| 30 | Ninety-two competitors took part in the first walk on Whit Monday the 1st June 1903 , one of the first all-amateur walking events to be held in England . |