Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to government with his mentor two years later , he was briefly a lord of the Treasury , but in 1711 became comptroller again and not long after that took a peerage as one of Harley 's ‘ dozen ’ new lords ( created en bloc to guarantee the Upper House 's acceptance of the peace of Utrecht ) and retreated to the lucrative but undemanding post of teller of the Exchequer . |
| 2 | We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches . |
| 3 | By the 1970s , when the more comprehensive MultiFibre Arrangement ( MFA ) of 1974 took the place of the LTA , these quotas put a virtual stop to further export growth of the most successful textile producers . |
| 4 | And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on . |
| 5 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 6 | The questionnaire in 1984 took an average of 61 minutes to complete . |
| 7 | Specialist climbers are often short and light , like the Luxembourger Charly Gaul , who won the Tour in 1958 , or Scotland 's Robert Millar , who in 1984 took the Grand Prix de la Montagne , the only British winner of this prize . |
| 8 | Only one amateur could break the stranglehold of the professionals but Bobby Jones , who in 1930 took the British and American amateur and open titles in a unique Grand Slam , was an American . |
| 9 | As a landowner , he was actively interested in agricultural improvements , and in 1800 took a leading part in obtaining an Act of Parliament for the Muston drainage scheme , covering ten thousand acres frequently flooded by the rivers Derwent and Hertford . |
| 10 | The same trio of firms that occupied the top three overall places in 1989 took the honours again this time ( see table 1 ) . |
| 11 | The announcement that British Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it buy the Rover car company in 1988 took the wind out of BAe , which lost 4p to 321p . |
| 12 | Polozkov 's speeches after his election in 1990 took a strongly ‘ workerist ’ line . |
| 13 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 14 | The dam broke in Serbia in 1804 and at first took the form of a protest by Serbian peasants against the janissaries . |
| 15 | In London , sterling ended slightly higher and the dollar finished little changed after resisting another round of intervention by the main central banks , which at best took the steam out of a small-scale rally . |
| 16 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 17 | George Reid from Kilwinning with 5th place was best Ayrshire finisher while Jackie Pearson at 10th took the best Local prize at 10th . |