Example sentences of "[noun sg] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partnership took some time to sell . |
| 2 | The Library Association took legal advice on whether they could take action , but were apparently advised that they did not have the ‘ locus ’ to intervene in this way . |
| 3 | Almost equal , but not quite , because Luke still seemed to retain a vestige of control while she trembled wildly as his hands slid adroitly up over her ribcage to cup her breasts from beneath , lifting them to the swooping descent of his dark head ; and she heard him mutter intensely again just before his mouth took voluptuous possession of the heated hardness of one exquisitely sensitive nipple . |
| 4 | Most compiled , and the young actress took several photos — perhaps for her memoirs later |
| 5 | Labour took 11 seats from the Tories in the 1990 local elections . |
| 6 | Labour took third place just 2,000 votes behind the winner and John Scott , a Stockton councillor , is the Labour man again . |
| 7 | When the crisis did occur , however , the first reaction of the Conservative leadership was to ensure that Labour took full responsibility . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) mentioned Derbyshire county council ; I remind the hon. Gentleman that Labour took Amber Valley in the local elections in May . |
| 9 | The man on the other side took instant advantage . |
| 10 | This preemptive action took four forms . |
| 11 | The Corrective Action took two forms — formal monitoring of the beard blower 's operation and increased awareness of the complaint through publicity . |
| 12 | Media Action took 300 calls during the week and issued 200 fact packs . |
| 13 | One stretch took three overnights where the great plan allowed just one . |
| 14 | The trainer took daily charge of the team , and on match days the manager just sat in the stand . |
| 15 | Publicity manager David Turner , said that Open Accounting took two years to develop because the Harrogate , Yorkshire company writes software from scratch for each new architecture . |
| 16 | The march took many years , perhaps more than a century . |
| 17 | The interview took 30 minutes for each manager . |
| 18 | The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’ |
| 19 | Since , in the year of Shamil 's capture , a partial mobilization of Russian troops on the empire 's Galician frontier took five months , the regime had every reason to extend the lessons it learned in the Caucasus to the rest of the military machine . |
| 20 | All around the conference centre , the message was the same from all but the largely isolated activists of the hard-left : differences on the detail of Neil Kinnock 's policy review took second place to its status as Labour 's only route-map to political power . |
| 21 | Before he developed his wrap around technique a full figure took 18 months to make . |
| 22 | In the last days of the campaign Churchill returned to the attack , pointing out the danger to the parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party posed by the National Executive ; but Attlee replied patiently , explaining the constitutional position of himself and his colleagues as he saw it ; naturally his supporters — with the exception of Laski himself — did not gainsay his arguments , and on the whole the electorate took little interest in the discussion . |
| 23 | The 1000-page study took two years to prepare . |
| 24 | His study took three months to prepare and , considers the markets available , it considers things like recycling credits that the councils can give you . |
| 25 | Even younger hopefuls , like Nigel Williams and Paul Bryers ( whose recent The Adultery Department took inexplicable potshots at Seventies-style communal living ) , seem to borrow their stylistic and thematic ideas from Brian Rix rather than Evelyn Waugh . |
| 26 | In the late 1960's , a Volkswagen car took 19 man-hours to build , thanks largely to semi-automatic aids . |
| 27 | British colonial rule took different forms in Zimbabwe and Zambia . |
| 28 | Although her descent down the steep incline took several minutes , the queue at the foot remained motionless . |
| 29 | That was a case in which the defendant took two bottles of whisky from the shelves and put them in her shopping bag . |
| 30 | The two year deal took nine months to negotiate , according to Neuron Data chairman and chief executive officer Patrick Perez , and is worth a little more than the company 's entire turnover for the month of December last year — see below . |