Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were at the park I took the down there cos |
| 2 | Sometimes during the mate 's watch I took the wheel and learnt to steer . |
| 3 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 4 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 5 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 6 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 7 | From the heap of clothing he took the girl 's blue jeans , grumbling , ‘ After that downpour last night … ’ |
| 8 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
| 9 | Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey . |
| 10 | It 's a good job I took the dog out this morning cos it ai n't fit to take a dog out . |
| 11 | When Zoser dabbed a little on his wife 's sleeve she took the sleeve and held it up to her nose . |
| 12 | In her living room she took the bundle of replies to her ad in the New Statesman , settled at her desk and wrote to Michael who was an architect and described himself as outgoing . |
| 13 | After a moment he took the belt . |
| 14 | Instead , when budgetary reform took place it took the form of a three tier decision making unit . |
| 15 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 16 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 17 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 18 | One day I took the beasts hunting and they raised a big fat buck . |
| 19 | At midnight I took the decision to risk it . |
| 20 | From the other she took the photograph — now with the glass cracked — of Tatyana and Zbigniew Nowak on Westminster Bridge . |
| 21 | The next day she took the plane back to Oklahoma . |
| 22 | Travelling by night she took the form of a mortal nurse , the better to prey on children and suck their blood . |
| 23 | At the back we took the worst of it . |
| 24 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 25 | The next day they took the plane back to Oklahoma City . |
| 26 | McAlinden told Inner London Crown Court he took the wood from fighting youths . |
| 27 | One day he took the afternoon off without telling anyone . |
| 28 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 29 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 30 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |