Example sentences of "[pers pn] took out a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 2 | Editor , — In 1980 I took out a BMA-BUPA policy for myself , my wife , and my daughter . |
| 3 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 4 | So I took out an insurance policy against a possible breakdown in the production . |
| 5 | She 's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this . |
| 6 | She took out a handkerchief and mopped her eyes . |
| 7 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 8 | Then , seeing Peggy 's lips pouting sulkily , she took out a further three pence . |
| 9 | The Captain had no sooner opened his mouth to say : ‘ Your husband is n't in … ? ’ than she took out a crumpled handkerchief and huge tears were rolling down her fat cheeks . |
| 10 | She took out a mirror and inspected her face carefully . |
| 11 | She took out a cigarette , lit it slowly , brooded . |
| 12 | She took out a bottle from the cupboard . |
| 13 | She took out a bottle of Glenfiddich and poured a wine-glassful . |
| 14 | From a drawer she took out a cardboard box , and laid it on the table . |
| 15 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 16 | Pushing aside her purse and the wallet of traveller 's cheques , she took out a comb , a packet of moist clean-up squares and a wad of tissues . |
| 17 | She took out a bundle of £10 notes each time and placed them in an envelope from her bag . |
| 18 | Unzipping her overnight bag , she took out a copy of one of Puddephat 's books . |
| 19 | She took out a cassette tape and pushed it into the car 's tape-deck . |
| 20 | Opening her case , she took out a syringe and filled it with a heart and respiratory stimulant . |
| 21 | Then , from , her case , she took out a bottle of tablets . |
| 22 | She took out an unexpected wisp of lace and linen , and dabbed at the nose . |
| 23 | If you took out a unit-linked endowment mortgage some years ago , now is the time to check it out . |
| 24 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 25 | So we took out a Share Protection policy — and when our senior partner did die , we were both secure . |
| 26 | ‘ We took out a mortgage and used all our reserves publicising the site 's historical importance , ’ said Mr Pritchard Gibson . |
| 27 | They took out a mortgage without telling the older couple . |
| 28 | Most borrowers did not anticipate this ; indeed , a 1989 survey by the Office of Fair Trading shows that only 37% of borrowers gave any thought at all to the likely future movement of interest rates when they took out a loan . |
| 29 | they took out a mortgage from six years ago , about six years ago , sixty four thousand and they owe seventy three now |
| 30 | Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter . |