Example sentences of "[verb] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |