Example sentences of "took [pers pn] with [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 2 | Flustered , she handed him her case and he took it with a strong hand , his face hard . |
| 3 | ‘ Here , take my seat , ’ she offered , and the young woman took it with a grateful smile . |
| 4 | Mait took it with a wry expression . |
| 5 | Then he took it with a brief word of thanks . |
| 6 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |