Example sentences of "took it [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning .
2 A police spokesman said the vehicle was not in working order and the thieves probably took it away on a trailer .
3 A second group of miners loaded the loose coal onto a moving conveyor which took it away from the coal face .
4 An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) .
5 She took it outside into the wood and walked around under the trees .
6 ‘ I took it seriously in the middle of the night .
7 I took it personally in the end , very personally .
8 Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course .
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