Example sentences of "[noun] took [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the May and June protests journalists took a leading part in demanding greater freedom of the press , and sympathetic reports of the pro-democracy movement briefly appeared in newspapers and broadcasts . |
| 2 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 3 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 4 | Dersingham took a dark-coloured paisley handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his lips and then his nose with it . |
| 5 | The Habsburgs took the Turkish threat more seriously than Matthias had done . |
| 6 | Madge Grimsilk took a small hand torch from her bag , pressed the button and placed it behind the forest at one side . |
| 7 | On the economy , on Europe and on support for the new leadership , Labour took a giant step towards becoming the Party the people will trust to govern Britain . |
| 8 | In the event Labour received marginally more votes than the Tories , in an election in which the two parties took a larger share of the total votes than ever before , but because of the geography of electoral support in relation to constituency boundaries it was the Tories who gained the majority of seats in Parliament and formed the next government . |
| 9 | Antonio devoured half of his burger in one bite , whilst Susanna took a tiny morsel of lobster . |
| 10 | One reaction to this rather clichéd allegation took the extreme form of the new classical macroeconomics which jettisoned Keynesian ideas lock , stock and barrel , and which reinstated a modified , rather more mathematical version of the old classical system . |
| 11 | Edward took no constructive pains to build support for his rule but was content to make it financially sound , in itself a notable achievement yet one secured at an exorbitant political cost . |
| 12 | Earthquakes took a high toll , as at Turnovo , and some of the more famous examples , like Rila Monastery , near Sofia , have been rebuilt much later ( see Volume 4 ) . |
| 13 | Hardy took a keen interest in their production , although , with two exceptions , the plays themselves were not his work . |
| 14 | ’ Ari took a sharp breath , which made Leila jump . |
| 15 | The home side took a sensational lead after only four minutes . |
| 16 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 17 | Lucy took a deep breath . |
| 18 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 19 | Near it , Scott took the British flag from under his clothes , and put it up . |
| 20 | St. David took a close look at his leg ‘ Sorry old son , nothing I can do . |
| 21 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 've got to say , I think in a way cocaine can really freeze your emotions , and David took an awful lot . |
| 22 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 23 | In December 1988 Gorbachev took the United Nations by storm and wrongfooted the American administration , then impotent during the hand-over of power from Reagan to President-elect George Bush , by announcing a unilateral reduction of 10 per cent in Russia 's conventional forces . |
| 24 | Fear took a firm grip on Rose 's stomach . |
| 25 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 26 | Humphrys took a keen interest in sport throughout his life ; he is said to have bowled out W. G. Grace [ q.v. ] three times while at Oxford . |
| 27 | Rex took a deep breath , sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit . |
| 28 | Rex took a precautionary step backwards . |
| 29 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 30 | Policeman Bob Walker took the individual honours from peg one returning 9lb 15oz . |