Example sentences of "[conj] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel now that if everybody looked after their own surroundings or took more notice of what 's going on immediately around them , the world might be a better place … ‘ |
| 2 | The window looked out on to a wide wooden verandah with a few deadbeat chairs and a metal table that took one leg off the ground when you leaned on it . |
| 3 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 4 | Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000 . |
| 5 | ‘ Just taking pictures ’ was supported by a philosophical edifice that took two bottles of beer to explain and provided lots of opportunity for amused , patronising glances . |
| 6 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 7 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 8 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 9 | There 's a , the person that took that words was your Moira |
| 10 | That 's where Sonic Youth got a lot of ideas from , because their guitarist Lee Renaldo actually used to play with Glenn Branca and in a way it 's Sonic Youth that took that drone style into pop music . ’ |
| 11 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 12 | In Egypt that took five weeks to get ; all for five days shooting . ’ |
| 13 | For a journey that took three days . |
| 14 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
| 15 | As an exercise in the skills of understatement and of giving the wrong impression without actually lying , Charles thought that took some beating . |
| 16 | Whew , that took some doing , I can tell you . |
| 17 | I bet that took some setting up when they ? |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 19 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 20 | He 's not he one that took this warehouse coordinator job ? |
| 21 | It was the Kan Hua Hui , the ‘ Flower Fair ’ , a sweet , sprightly tune that took considerable expertise to play . |
| 22 | In the 1870s this was a mind-boggling task that took 300 clerks six weeks to complete . |
| 23 | The work that took 18th century London by storm with its rich mixture of ballads and brigands , true love and treachery . |
| 24 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 25 | until took more responsibility because it was outside contractors you see |
| 26 | The strain gauges were bonded to the shaft and took 200 readings per second . |
| 27 | Dexter detected a glimmer of pleasure , as if the man felt instinctive sympathy for Lancaster and took personal satisfaction in thwarting the police . |
| 28 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 29 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 30 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |