Example sentences of "[adv] took [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government of New South Wales apparently took this finding into consideration in deciding to abolish the immunity . |
| 2 | The Imperial Airways ground staff at Karachi assisted with the repair of the Croydon , but without the facilities available in England it still took several weeks . |
| 3 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 4 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 5 | But with lightning reflexes Meany pulled the gear well clear of Robbie Recipe 's sweeper , yet still took this shot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | know if the police ever took any action , particularly about these ladies who died , did you hear |
| 8 | It always took some while for the Thing to wake up . |
| 9 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 10 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He hardly took any notice of me . |
| 14 | In many battles they proved their willingness to spill their own blood in defence of the human lands and Teclis and Finreir both took many wounds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In addition to this and other commissions , Mozart also took some pupils , including the daughter of the Count of Guines , to whom he was attempting to teach composition . |
| 17 | Even though the Prime Minister has not incorporated the provision into the agreement at Maastricht , does he not agree that it is high time that we in this country also took those steps for ourselves ? |
| 18 | In future the pages of the Review would carry no further discussion of such general social-cultural issues , and Gurrey himself later took such concerns away from academic English studies and into the school sector . |
| 19 | He later took these clients with him to Sheppards ( Stockbrokers ) where they dealt with him on a much larger level . |
| 20 | I never knowingly took any steroids and I never would . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The oil price crisis in 1973 frankly took most people , both oil analysts and foreign policy analysts , by surprise , ’ says Sir Patrick . |
| 22 | Most Germans now took little interest in politics , becoming cynical about the authoritarian and military values of the past , and uncertain of what to put in their place . |
| 23 | We tried to point out that the ‘ no deals ’ policy was obviously no deterrent to the kidnapping of Britons , but again , nobody really took much notice . |
| 24 | The officers had their Saracen 's Head but the Lincoln Naafi Club really took some beating . |
| 25 | But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge . |
| 26 | The other mare obligingly took little interest in the proceedings — until the Beirut-Sharjah leg . |
| 27 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 28 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 29 | The Greek prime minister , Mr Constantine Mitsotakis , looks downright incompetent : at first he said he would pardon the guilty men , then took that back and said he would merely release them . |
| 30 | Miss Emilia Thorne gazed at Willie , stared at Tom and then took another look at Willie . |