Example sentences of "[adv] took [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 2 | The Government of New South Wales apparently took this finding into consideration in deciding to abolish the immunity . |
| 3 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 4 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 5 | Rosemary not only took 3rd place with this contribution but was sufficiently enthusiastic about the competition to send in a batch of other entries from the newsletters she has edited without even mentioning it to their writers . |
| 6 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 7 | Ludo and I just took one side each and approached every table with snapshots of Tamsin . |
| 8 | I still dreamed of food and the convivial , outdoor feast , but I no longer took full part in the proceedings . |
| 9 | Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver . |
| 10 | Although the doctor 's status in the sick-room was rising , he still took second place to the clergyman . |
| 11 | But with lightning reflexes Meany pulled the gear well clear of Robbie Recipe 's sweeper , yet still took this shot . |
| 12 | Jane Bradford , head of NatWest 's small business service , said people who had been unemployed possibly took more care over the initial planning , or were less likely to be optimistic than those who had quit their jobs . |
| 13 | know if the police ever took any action , particularly about these ladies who died , did you hear |
| 14 | Doctor Jekyll loved his books and always took great care of them . |
| 15 | In the grammar schools , the practical always took second place . |
| 16 | It always took some while for the Thing to wake up . |
| 17 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 18 | Instead he shrank warily into the background until coaxed or ordered forward , and always took full advantage of those times when Buddie showed an interest in him . |
| 19 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 20 | These meetings took place every year until 1965 , they usually took one day and the French participants used to call them ‘ Cashmere meetings ’ because , after voicing their disinclination to cooperate , they would leave and go to buy Scottish pullovers . |
| 21 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 22 | Since Jasper and Bienvida never went to bed until Tina did but fell asleep wherever they happened to be , Jarvis hardly took this protest seriously . |
| 23 | However , his former colleague , Hans Urs von Balthasar , though a comparable ( but contrasting ) giant in the theology of revelation , hardly took any part in the Council or in the subsequent work of exposition and discussion . |
| 24 | He hardly took any notice of me . |
| 25 | UNITA also took second place in the legislative elections . |
| 26 | Portadown 's Peter Duke also took first place in the Star of Tomorrow FF1600 race . |
| 27 | The Scots also took French language modules at varying levels from 2 to 5 . |
| 28 | The Conservative government elected in 1979 also took this view and promised to reduce the rate of inflation which was then running at about 12 per cent by reducing the rate of growth of M3 . |
| 29 | The 1970s and 1980s also saw the rise of institutional shareholders who often acted on similar information and hence took similar buy or sell decisions . |
| 30 | Bow bureau , for example , was without a manager for some time and the staff temporarily took collective responsibility for all tasks . |