Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 2 | I made sure I was well prepared before the big day and I especially took time in deciding my dress . |
| 3 | I just took opportunities and worked at them . ’ |
| 4 | For instance , returning to that problematic word cunt , I once took part in a discussion in which a woman explained that she did not use that word because for her , its connotations were unrelievedly pornographic . |
| 5 | Despite the absence of strong cropmarks , I still took photographs of anything that looked remotely suspicious . |
| 6 | I also took part in conferences of Burma missionaries in Lahore , Lucknow and Mussourie , in which we began to think about the revival of our considerable educational work . |
| 7 | I also took care to make this little scene , in the way that I have described , appear to be part simply of an illustration of the appalling character of the Maharajah . |
| 8 | ‘ I also took note of the man who wrote to me saying ‘ why do you sigh so much ? ’ |
| 9 | My initial thoughts that the process of filming during the meetings and workshops might inhibit the participants from speaking their minds , was quickly dispelled when I later took part in several workshops at Highlander and discovered ( with some amazement ) , that the camera crew quickly became ‘ invisible ’ as people got their teeth into the subject matter . |
| 10 | ‘ The first time I really took Jo on board was before I 'd ever met her . |
| 11 | Furthermore , I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 13 | I then took Maxine 's mind off what had happened by asking her to describe again the scenery in the area of the canal and the painted barges and sturdy horses which had so fascinated the young boy . |
| 14 | Although I sailed through O-Level I never took maths any further and I never engaged creatively in the process of doing mathematics . |
| 15 | I RECENTLY TOOK PART in an access discussion broadcast by the BBC when a landowner quoted a stalker as asking what walkers and mountaineers contributed to the running of an estate . |
| 16 | I recently took Millie to her vet . |
| 17 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 18 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 19 | And sure enough they do panic and run amok , and ‘ the almost mystical terror which suddenly took hold of our authorities ’ completes the ruinous and negative side of the Gadarene story . |
| 20 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 21 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 22 | There was a glitter of hostility in the girl 's velvet-dark eyes which momentarily took Caroline 's breath away … |
| 23 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 24 | A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck . |
| 25 | Using the jet nozzle head , unsightly black marks in tile grouting just dissolved away , and the oily deposits on the back wheel of a motorbike , which usually took hours to shift , disappeared in no time . |
| 26 | Nothing was found relating to the Jewish Exodus roughly 5000 years ago , which probably took place further south . |
| 27 | The meeting with Picasso , which probably took place around the time this picture was being painted or soon after , must have encouraged him in turning his back completely on Fauvism . |
| 28 | It is now clear that Tolstoy 's version of events rested on a fundamental confusion between what happened at Bleiburg and events which later took place elsewhere . |
| 29 | Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves . |
| 30 | The influence of its music was greatly enhanced by the technological advances which then took place : first in gramophones ; then in public broadcasting systems . |