Example sentences of "[adj] took [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most enjoyed the luxury of employing a cleaner to do their housework but a few took a puritanical delight in doing their own . |
| 2 | Some took the arduous climb , a square-by-square approach , passing the hurdles of Sergeant 's and Inspector 's examinations , serving time on a variety of specialist duties , and beat supervision . |
| 3 | By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . |
| 4 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 5 | The approaches to investment appraisal discussed in chapters 1 and 2 took an individual-project perspective . |
| 6 | There was also a chance that plants might be stolen and Collinson reported in January 1751 , ‘ … to my great loss , some prying , knowing people looked into the cases and out of that numbered 2 took the three roots of Chamaerhododendron , honey laurel , root of silver-leaved arum and the Spirea alnifolio … |
| 7 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 8 | For the first time , this took an uncompromising line ; there was no more talk of limiting the damage . |
| 9 | At times this took the sophisticated form of explaining contradictions between biblical texts at the literal , historical level as being deliberately placed there by the divine author to teach the point that a deeper meaning lies beyond the literal sense . |
| 10 | They compared three sets of students : the first took a course in mainstream microeconomics , taught by an instructor with an interest in industrial organisation and game theory ; the second took a similar course , but taught by a specialist on development in Maoist China ; the third took a placebo ( astronomy ) . |
| 11 | After the next corner , the road divided , and Sabine took the right-hand fork . |
| 12 | During this time he earned a reputation as an intrepid aerial adventurer , in whom no less a person than King George III took a special interest in his ballooning exploits . |
| 13 | The Japanese took the initial technology and kept moving it forward . |
| 14 | The FT-SE 100 took a fresh battering and at the close £4bn had been wiped off stock values . |
| 15 | RACING pigeon Lucky took the easy route from Malta to Britain … flying on a holiday jet in her owner 's duty-free bag . |
| 16 | During 1838 and 1839 the latter took the entire amount of 4,719 tons 4 cwt. 6 stones dry weight with a value of £35,302 : 11s. : 4d. ; Royalty paid was £2,712 : 12s. : 8d. , being one-twelfth , but after the deduction of certain expenses related to the selling . |
| 17 | When Peter the Great took the final step of proclaiming himself Emperor in 1721 he discarded the jewelled cap in which he and his brother Ivan had originally been crowned in 1682 . |
| 18 | ( Bill ) Brakspear , Dr. Alan Hartley , Micky Watson and Jim Daw — all took a great pride and interest in this section , feeling honoured to be involved . |
| 19 | We all took a large piece of the treasure , and some used it sensibly , and some did not . |
| 20 | His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong . |
| 21 | We all took the short bus-ride to my Pop 's house . |
| 22 | The Supreme Court on May 4 took a further step in the ongoing process of restricting the rights of prisoners convicted by state judicial systems to have their cases reviewed in federal courts . |
| 23 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 24 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 25 | HARPY and TRACE II took the first option . |
| 26 | Only one amateur could break the stranglehold of the professionals but Bobby Jones , who in 1930 took the British and American amateur and open titles in a unique Grand Slam , was an American . |
| 27 | ( That took a long time too . |
| 28 | That took a few blurred seconds on the A423 between Southam and Banbury . |
| 29 | The wounded took a long time to arrive . |
| 30 | As one , they each took a deep breath . |