Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] took [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld . |
| 2 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 3 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 4 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 5 | As she left the cabin she took one of the oilskin jackets out the hanging locker . |
| 6 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 7 | With a small cry of anguish she took one last look at him and turned and fled . |
| 8 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 9 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |
| 10 | He played for Sussex from 1912 to 1937 , during which period he took 2,211 wickets for Sussex at an individual cost of 17.41 runs . |
| 11 | Then from the back of the file he took six more sheets of paper , perused them hurriedly and then signed those too . |
| 12 | I took erm bank the other day I took hundred quid out |
| 13 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 14 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 15 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 16 | But we had to take precautions.On the ground we took one or two ricochets which made marks on the skin of the aircraft , but nothing was punctured . |
| 17 | And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs . |
| 18 | Within two hours of the Chancellor 's message we took three orders for new BMW 's . |
| 19 | When the Quins arrived at Sudbury at midday they took one look at the pitch and declined to play . |
| 20 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 21 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 22 | In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42 . |
| 23 | er the coach to er to er Bowness on the bus we took thirty nine pound erm with discount from last year people who er bought some last Christmas we made twenty three pound on that the library , only thirty pence course , we 've had trouble with the library because we ca n't leave it here now and er so that 's why it 's s so low the , the income . |
| 24 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 25 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 26 | Their trigger fingers are obviously becoming more itchy ; last year they took nine months to fire off 313,000 rounds at demonstrators with a total bill to the Korean taxpayer of $6.7 million . |
| 27 | During his American trip he took six wickets in six balls , bowling underarm against teams composed of twenty-two men from the USA and Canada . |
| 28 | One night in desperation I took one of Michael 's strong pain-killers . |
| 29 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |