Example sentences of "[pers pn] took this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took this threat rather lightly and for good reason , because some fifteen minutes later he was on the telephone to me talking about a completely different matter , as though the previous conversation had never taken place . |
| 2 | I took this bass out on a gig and got on very well with it . |
| 3 | So I took this Whitley up for 10 , 15 maybe 20 minutes and just made quite sure that all the engines were running perfectly , made a spot check on each engine and tested its flying capabilities — hands off and a few simple things in everyday testing . |
| 4 | it 's my go because I took this card . |
| 5 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 6 | I took this horse off a French Dragoon north of the town . ’ |
| 7 | At the time , I took this decay merely as a sign of the times ; I was comfortable with decay . |
| 8 | ‘ Mandy , if I took this bet , you might feel driven to play Cupid . ’ |
| 9 | Linda , 51 , says : ‘ I took this picture for myself — for the beauty and the magic of it . ’ |
| 10 | Anyway , she went to she took this sister 's post in The Yale |
| 11 | Sentencing the couple — both of Manchester — to 21 months each after they admitted abduction , Mrs Justice Ebsworth said : ‘ You took this baby to draw attention to yourselves . ’ |
| 12 | Joe , I 'm not seeking to close down on discussion about item er , three , one and three , three but in view of the discussion we took this morning , you took this morning about the capital building programme and referring it to er , P A G , may I suggest that they both go that way , unless you have any particular comments to add to . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why you took this job , free of charge . ’ |
| 14 | Well if , and if you took this Freud 's theory seriously . |
| 15 | Joe , I 'm not seeking to close down on discussion about item er , three , one and three , three but in view of the discussion we took this morning , you took this morning about the capital building programme and referring it to er , P A G , may I suggest that they both go that way , unless you have any particular comments to add to . |
| 16 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 17 | Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat . |
| 18 | In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world . |
| 19 | They took this idea to Prince Charles ' Youth Business Trust — and came away with a low-interest loan for £4,000 . |
| 20 | They took this idea to BBS , a new production company formed by Bob Rafelson , Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner ( thus BBS — Bob , Bert and Steve ) to produce intelligent low-budget pictures — the thinking man 's Roger Corman movies , someone said . |
| 21 | They took this luxury in their stride . |
| 22 | ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’ |
| 23 | He took this bloke in , he did n't have a job . |
| 24 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 25 | After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port . |
| 26 | He took this work seriously and developed into quite a muscular specimen . |
| 27 | that time he took this fridge and you kept asking him if he were selling it cos w it were empty were n't it , and he says no it 's a load of rubbish . |
| 28 | He took this news quietly . |
| 29 | He claims he took this picture of Mrs Hilali in Dahouk in Kurdistan last January when he says he saw her helping refugees . |
| 30 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |