Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] took a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 2 | ‘ After seeing the PM you took a long leave and then came back . |
| 3 | For example , the German authorities in the 1960s sought to offset upward pressure on the deutschmark ; as a result they took a relaxed view of the development of a foreign deutschmark bond market and German residents ' purchases ( which entailed a capital outflow ) . |
| 4 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |
| 5 | Even before the crash I took a great deal of exercise — you have to work at staying in shape . |
| 6 | After marriage she took a break while her two children were small , returning later to a fresh specialisation as Research Fellow at St. Mark 's Hospital , London ( gastroenterological/ coloproctological diseases ) She has M.R.C.P. ( London ) 1950 and D.M. 1971 . |
| 7 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 8 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 9 | On his return he took a more active part and in the House of Commons bore the brunt of the hostility of Mervyn Rees , the Labour Northern Ireland Secretary , but the relations between Paisley and the paramilitaries were never entirely cordial or trusting . |
| 10 | Soon after his return he took a lease of Colworth House , Sharnbrook in north Bedfordshire , from John Fiott-Lee , whose principal seat was at Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | Back in the cottage she took a long , hot bath , but the water failed to ease the tension in her body , even though she lay there for what seemed like an eternity , trying to will away the effects of the afternoon . |
| 12 | At one point I took a bowl of water to her : her mouth was bleeding and a trail of saliva dangled from her lower lip . |
| 13 | As we left the site I took a photograph of a Roman bridge . |
| 14 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 15 | Once in her room she took a seat by the windows and , pushing her distress over Paul to the back of her mind , tore open the packet he 'd given her . |
| 16 | The study of the voice what we say and how we say it I then introduced you to if you like advanced body language and based on the work that Marion North did and rather than take an individual movement of the body we took a cluster and how many aspects where there to cluster I wonder there were three were n't there . |
| 17 | After the war he took a job with the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Company . |
| 18 | He watched closely as she selected every garment , and at one point he took a dress from her , replacing it with another . |
| 19 | ‘ Green Jack , ’ Tallis said to herself , and as if the sound of the fanciful name from folklore had attracted its attention it took a quick , awkward step forward , sinewy body cracking like old wood underfoot . |
| 20 | On his arrival at eleven o'clock in the evening he took a room in a hotel , and walked around the streets , in the hope of meeting Tess . |
| 21 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 22 | From his saddlebag he took a length of rope that he knotted as a leash round Nosey 's neck , then he drew his rifle out of the saddle holster , cocked it , and went silently forward . |
| 23 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 24 | In the tracking room he took a seat at the desk and listened while Clarac explained the system . |
| 25 | One Sunday afternoon we took a trancelike ride in the car out to Roxbury , and parked , and strolled the streets , and there she was , standing at her front door in a blue dressing-gown with her arms folded and with a look of amused reproach on her face . |
| 26 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 27 | I continue to be very depressed , and last night I took a kitchen knife to my bedroom and drew blood from my wrist . |
| 28 | That night I took a stroll around the expensive quarter . |
| 29 | When I was out with the children the other day she took a call from Tim Dunton . |
| 30 | Next day he took a week 's holiday and went with Sam to Switzerland , because he thought he would enjoy the tobogganing . |