Example sentences of "[conj] took the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 2 | There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler ’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All ’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired-up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time ’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure . |
| 3 | Quite in command of herself , she smiled politely in the direction of the hysterical Kathleen , now throwing herself about alarmingly in her chair , waved to Ray , and took the shaken , but now well-behaved Flossie into the hall . |
| 4 | I remember how he flew unhesitatingly to Peru to protest openly against the bombing of human rights organisations there — and took the personal decision that it would be , in his carefully chosen words , ‘ inappropriate ’ for him to use the special security protection he was provided with . |
| 5 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 6 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 7 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 8 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 9 | The Sergeant came up from the rear to join Charles as they left the Carriageway and took the long asphalt path that leads diagonally away to Marble Arch . |
| 10 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 11 | Curval turned and took the tiny , deadly slide from off the table . |
| 12 | She developed an interest in Welsh literature , and took the bardic name of Merch Myrddin as a reminder of her birthplace . |
| 13 | A year after she arrived , Anna moved from Christine 's school , and took the new one ‘ like a duck to water ’ . |
| 14 | The ‘ friend ’ then made contact and took the new recruit along to join in her activity . |
| 15 | He gave one of these sacred boards to Harry and took the other one himself . |
| 16 | She did as he said , and took the spare seat without waiting to be asked . |
| 17 | So I bus-hopped into the City and took the Central Line as far as Bond Street . |
| 18 | Vologsky 's inner robot acknowledged that the missile detection apparatus was functioning , and took the appropriate action . |
| 19 | Robinson soon went , but Gooch and Gower batted well and took the overnight score to 110 for 1 ; only another 119 to avoid the follow-on and clearly England 's best day of the series so far . |
| 20 | pony Norman 's Choice very successfully , and took the individual silver in the last Junior European Championships . |
| 21 | We drew from the four books ( two double volumes ) and took the occasional snippet from our fellow adaptors . |
| 22 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 23 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 24 | A few days later , Grace McNeil , who had just lost a much-loved Rough Collie and had been sent to us by her vet , came and took the young male , Robbie . |
| 25 | Most days Jo headed straight for the nearest john and took the hideous contraption off as soon as she was alone , muttering , ‘ If you got it , flaunt it ! ’ as she threw back her shoulders and felt the liberated flesh bounce free . |
| 26 | Glass in hand and very quickly Flavia walked across the room and took the still empty seat beside her . |
| 27 | Sir Anthony cried in greeting , at the same time as the Frenchman bowed to each of them in turn and took the empty seat opposite Sir Anthony . |
| 28 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 29 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 30 | A Roman Jew of the mid eleventh century was inspired to baptism by Pope Leo IX , and took the Christian name of Leo . |