Example sentences of "[verb] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address .
2 We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking .
3 His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart .
4 If I 'd have took that icing off that cake was as moist as anything , I could have re-marzipanned that
5 oh , you should 've took those Migrolifs
6 Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’
7 Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so
8 What Meredith Jones did took some months and what he did was unprecedented .
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