Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] took a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bastard knew when I took a drink . |
| 2 | And I 'll tell them why I took a woman , and that she 's good to me . |
| 3 | The story of Karen and her brown envelope began in 1972 when she took a new job at a nuclear factory in Oklahoma . |
| 4 | It was when she took a chunk out of my shoulder and nearly bit my damn ear off that I got the message . |
| 5 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 6 | BRITAIN 'S dressage riders made history today when they took a European Championship team silver medal in Lipica , Slovenia . |
| 7 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 8 | I 've got gravel wounds in my back and my leg hurts where they took a skin graft . |
| 9 | Thieves struck at Northgate , where they took a video recorder , a pearl necklace , cash and a gold ring , and at Bowman Street , where a hi-fi , television , video recorder , microwave , telephone and clock radio were taken . |
| 10 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 11 | He was a commissioner of customs , trade , and plantations , and joint paymaster of the Dunkirk garrison until 1662 , when he took a share in the great farm of the customs . |
| 12 | He embarked on a new career in 1864 when he took a lease of mineral property between Ton Pentre and Treorchy in the upper Rhondda valley , not hitherto a coal-producing area . |
| 13 | He returned to the War Office in the winter of 1939–40 , and was wounded again off Dunkirk in June 1940 , when he took a small boat across to join the rescue . |
| 14 | Coleraine 's Ken Millar broke the five hour record at the Straid Fishery this week when he took a great catch of 27 trout for 47lb 9ozs on Ace of Spades and Viva lures . |
| 15 | Mr Mark Rees , of Tunbridge Wells , Kent , made news in 1986 when he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 16 | He began fantasising and had to take avoiding action 81 when he took a corner too wide . |
| 17 | In his final year at Exeter , where he took a degree in economics and agriculture economics , he joined Bath just as the Avon club started to take off on its four-year domination of the John Player Cup . |
| 18 | That 's why it took a long time for the light to get to you . ’ |
| 19 | And that 's why it took a long long time . |
| 20 | We can understand why he took a walk each evening . |