Example sentences of "[noun sg] took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 2 | On the economy , on Europe and on support for the new leadership , Labour took a giant step towards becoming the Party the people will trust to govern Britain . |
| 3 | The home side took a sensational lead after only four minutes . |
| 4 | Fear took a firm grip on Rose 's stomach . |
| 5 | It was shortly before ten o clock this mornng that an inmate took a civiliam employee hostage at Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes.Unconfirmed reports say the prisoner was on remand on a robbery charge , but was unarmned when the hostage was taken . |
| 6 | A 24-year-old man was taken by one ambulance crew to Wrexham Maelor Hospital with cuts to the head , back and chest injuries , while another ambulance took a semi-conscious man from Holywell to Glan Clwyd hospital at Bodelwyddan . |
| 7 | THE POUND took a new battering yesterday . |
| 8 | Bonanza took a heavy silver cigar-case from his pocket and removed a fat Havana . |
| 9 | Hygiene took a new acquisition under its wing at the beginning of August . |
| 10 | The horse took a side-track which led uphill . |
| 11 | The young horse took a horrified plunge away from the crazy little object . |
| 12 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 13 | The pro-choice organisation NARAL took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times . |
| 14 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |
| 15 | Our boat took a short stop-over at one of the unlikely floating islands of Uros . |
| 16 | Staff at Sellafield 's new THORP complex took a light hearted look at life when they welcomed their families and friends to the plant . |
| 17 | On Jan. 30 the violence took a new turn with a report of a direct confrontation between Albanians and Serbs in the village of Kosovska Vitina . |
| 18 | The grypesh were clawing over their own dead to get through the gate whilst swords and staves and Ratagan 's axe took a fearful toll . |
| 19 | In the spring of 1926 , Lewis 's own secret career as a poet took a great stride forward as he completed his long narrative poem Dymer . |
| 20 | My agent took a dummy package to the Hilton , addressed to Tweed , marked ‘ Personal and Confidential ’ . |
| 21 | Then the act took a new turn . |
| 22 | Neither girl took a great deal of interest in me . |
| 23 | Quarrymen stopping for a pint in the King 's Head public house on their way home took a stoical view of the quarry 's recent success . |
| 24 | DESPERATE Chancellor Norman Lamont 's hopes that shoppers will spend their way out of the slump took a triple bashing yesterday . |
| 25 | In the March 1993 Budget , by freezing excise duty on spirits while raising duty on wine and beer , the then Chancellor took a small step towards levelling the playing field . |
| 26 | It was to have been the IRA 's biggest gun-running plot ever , but it was foiled because of what was called ‘ Operation Leprechaun ’ , where the CIA , our MI5 and Irish Intelligence took a healthy — or unhealthy , it all depends on your point of view — interest in the activities of Noraid , an Irish-American group that specialized — for all I know it may still be specializing — in buying American arms and shipping them to the IRA in Ireland . |
| 27 | When Lucy asked her , her fantasy took a careful half-step forwards . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Last September the county council took a key decision about what its preferred first phase would be . |
| 29 | The criminal law took a strong line against duelling in the nineteenth century , despite the notions of honour which still regarded it as appropriate or correct for settling certain disputes . |
| 30 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |