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Example sentences of "[pers pn] took some [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	I took some clothes and tools , and also a box of Spanish gold and silver money .
4	Last year , I took some English .
5	I took some photographs ; then , tired and happy , lay on the mound and watched some large , white clouds with grey bellies drift like giant manta rays through the swirling air .
6	Cos I took some photographs of Sammy , he got a picture of Sammy in there , picture of Nat .
7	I took some measures through the Arts Council to help the cash flows of some of the institutions that were threatened by the delays in that funding .
8	I took some tapes with me to Saint-Moritz and listened , and thought , my goodness , this is quite wrong .
9	I took some pills . ’
10	While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay .
11	She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table .
12	Eventually she took some goods her husband had left at her lodgings to the Police Station .
13	She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass .
14	But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix .
15	So she took some tea and some bread-and-butter while she thought about it .
16	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 .
17	But she took some coffee and began to drink .
18	Gillian snorted as she repeated her husband 's gallantry , but it was plain she took some pleasure in it too .
19	She would have no trouble catching him on paper , but she took some photographs just to make sure .
20	She took some gravel off the top of the pill-box and threw it through one of the slits .
21	She cut two thin slices and then , from a plastic container , she took some margarine and spread it on the bread .
22	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 .
23	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 ’ .
24	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 .
25	There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it .
26	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 .
27	In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts .
28	In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living .
29	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
30	Well yes we had you could see on some of them , they did n't want much to turn them on , you know there was two or three there and they they took some others with them of course then did n't they , you know .