Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will spring a tear , come to attention and salute that old Scottish soldier who took an alien handed to feed his family and still bring honour to the 91st of Foot . |
| 2 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 3 | It was the home side who took the lead in the twenty sixth minute when Doug Taylor beat Brian House on the right wing , put in a low cross and Pedro Herbert crept in behind the defence to score . |
| 4 | The schools who took the challenge are happy to be in control of their own affairs . |
| 5 | However , as Omari has pointed out , the paper also printed letters from readers who took a nationalist point of view , and tried to provide answers to them . |
| 6 | He held out the salver to Galvone who took the sheet , unfolded it , read the few words on the paper and handed it to Hauser . |
| 7 | The second half continued in the same exciting pattern as the first , but for all Witney 's pressure , it was Yate who took the lead . |
| 8 | In both these developments it was largely scholars in the United States who took the lead . |
| 9 | Henry III then gave the new matrix to Master Nicholas de Ely who took the oath to keep it faithfully . |
| 10 | Yes in the F A Cup fourth round third replay between Leeds United and Arsenal at Elland Road , it was the visitors who took a two goal lead in the first half . |
| 11 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 12 | This year it was St Albans who took the initiative with Jenny Hillyard scoring after two minutes . |
| 13 | There was this lawyer bloke who took a notion |
| 14 | Rescuers who took the girl to hospital said Lance 's quick thinking had saved her life . |
| 15 | There was an old lady of Cork who took a young priest for a walk . |
| 16 | In Mandalay , Kington drove round with an Australian who took a detached interest while overtaking a pair of cyclists in line abreast , pedalling hand-in-hand all over the road . |
| 17 | One of the biggest winners at the weekend of course was Andre Agassi who took the men 's title at Wimbledon … |
| 18 | Nevertheless she loved it just the same but had to sadly wave it goodbye , much to the relief of her cat who took a dim view of the competition ! |
| 19 | A bus travelling from Haifa to Nahariya in the early spring of 1948 was stopped by Arabs who took the five Jewish passengers from the vehicle and cut their throats . |
| 20 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 21 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 22 | Bovelander wears the unofficial tag of being the sport 's top penalty corner exponent — no goalkeeper likes to face his thunderous shots — but in the game between Ireland and Holland earlier this month , it was van der Honoret who took the strikes and ended up with a hat-trick . |
| 23 | ‘ The girl sub-editor who took the call is still at Holborn police station . |
| 24 | But the ministry was anyway not run by the maiden aunts of the BBFC but by members of the intelligentsia who took a reasonably broad view of wartime cinema , and recognized that effective propaganda was subtle propaganda . |
| 25 | His tutor was Cambridge boss John Beck who took a gamble on the lad who was nearly booted out because he had no bottle . |
| 26 | After three days intense competition in temperatures approaching 90 degrees , it was the ladies from Hoddesden , Alison Widdicombe and Valerie Morrison and Battersea father and son team of Hiralal and Viren Soma who took the honours with victory in the finals over , respectively , Liz Simpkin and Chris Leverington , from Solihull and ‘ Essex Boys ’ , Steve Fleming and Andrew Bacon . |
| 27 | Neil Marten ( now Sir Neil Marten ) was an active local MP , and a Conservative who took a characteristically independent and critical line in the apparently endless debates about Britain 's entry to the Common Market . |
| 28 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 29 | She had a nanny , Kent-born Judith Pamell who took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used , highly-sprung perambulator . |
| 30 | They were summoned to see Miss Rudge who took a dim view of the episode . |