Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 2 | Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife . |
| 3 | John Parker , who himself took a nasty knock on the head while batting in a famous Press match at Harrogate in 1977 , stiffens his reader on page 9 by having the bumptious captain of Surrey keel over ‘ like a battleship hit by a torpedo ’ . |
| 4 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 5 | First , that Nigel would refuse entry to anyone to whom he took a dislike , and the ones he did like he would n't want to charge , a distinct disadvantage from a business point of view . |