Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she was going to need a lot of help , that was for sure , and if someone took the trouble to put an advert in the tube , the least you could do was memorise the number . |
| 2 | Carrie said , in a hurt , distant voice , ‘ Much what you 'd think , I suppose , if someone took the roof off your house . |
| 3 | The obscurity of parts of scripture was also a source of embarrassment if one took the books collectively to be the essential medium of divine revelation ; but that could be mitigated by allegory , or by the principle that obscure texts are interpreted by what is clear . |
| 4 | If one took the beginning of the universe to correspond to the North Pole , then the end of the universe should be similar to the beginning , just as the South Pole is similar to the North . |
| 5 | If one took the distance as only one kilometre and we regard that as absolutely insufficient for a village of the character of Flaxton , we would prefer one and a half miles or two point four kilometres as the minimum . |
| 6 | But none took the trouble to complain , to seek out the origin , true name and the lair of Rubberneck . |
| 7 | but I 've only , in fact , used ten because someone took the microphone in and put it back in the wrong place . |