Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 2 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 3 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 4 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 5 | A dreadful second shot from the perfect position in the middle of the 10th fairway had to be retrieved with a deft bunker shot ; he was deep in the trees at the 11th , where he took five , and bunkered at the 12th , though again at no cost to him . |
| 6 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 7 | A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player . |
| 8 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 9 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 10 | So impressed was I that I took Hellen to meet her at a later performance the same week . |
| 11 | Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair . |
| 12 | Meester Northcliffe , ’ he trilled — and it was a measure of my disorientation that I took this further name-change in my faltering stride . |
| 13 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 14 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 15 | I played a couple of tracks to Hugh and he liked them very much and wanted to hear some more , so I took some more up to him . |
| 16 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 17 | All right , so I took full responsibility for the organisation of the sale , but there is no way I can be blamed for the outcome . |
| 18 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 19 | Agnes clearly was n't going to take Maxim any more seriously as a spotter of fan clubs than she took Six as an organiser of them . |
| 20 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 21 | ‘ It was after that weekend gig in Zimbabwe — but I seem to remember that you took two weeks ’ leave immediately after that , so perhaps you never knew . |
| 22 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 23 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 24 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 25 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 26 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 27 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 28 | ‘ Given the depressed state of the UK market , it was absolutely essential that we took this painful action to bring down our break-even point and thereby tailor our company to its potential markets . ’ |
| 29 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 30 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |