Example sentences of "[pers pn] took some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took some work to show him and he was very generous about it . ’ |
| 2 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 3 | Last year , I took some English . |
| 4 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 5 | She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table . |
| 6 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 7 | So she took some tea and some bread-and-butter while she thought about it . |
| 8 | In another recent case , two-year-old James Austin , who had been left strapped into his baby seat by his mother , was driven away while she took some refuse to a rubbish dump some 50 yards from her parked car . |
| 9 | But she took some coffee and began to drink . |
| 10 | Gillian snorted as she repeated her husband 's gallantry , but it was plain she took some pleasure in it too . |
| 11 | She took some gravel off the top of the pill-box and threw it through one of the slits . |
| 12 | She cut two thin slices and then , from a plastic container , she took some margarine and spread it on the bread . |
| 13 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 14 | And in fact , though perhaps it is shocking to admit it , we took some advantage of this dreadful argument during the campaign : we said we did not want to bring personalities into the election , but of course it was important that members of the Council should be responsible people who would not take advantage of their ‘ special position ’ . |
| 15 | In addition to the latest tapes by the Beatles , Joni Mitchell , Bob Dylan , Van Morrison and Neil Young , we took some reference books on shells , fishes and birds — and an 1890 edition of Wallace 's classic The Malay Archipelago . |
| 16 | And one time in Austin it was really bad 'cos we took some acid before we played and I felt really small , like I could n't do anything , like wooahh ! , like vertigo . |
| 17 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 18 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 19 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |
| 20 | I think if parents are concerned and feel that their child is brighter than his performance shows , then it is time they took some action . |
| 21 | Then he took some money out of his pocket and paid for it . |
| 22 | He took some money from his pocket and gave it to the taxi driver . |
| 23 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 24 | He took some jam . |
| 25 | Educated in Paris and Vienna , he took some art classes . |
| 26 | Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy-hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment . |
| 27 | like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish |
| 28 | Cec was a clever , goalscoring inside or centre-forward although , as his career records show , he took some time to come to terms with the standard required in Division Two of the Football League . |
| 29 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 30 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |