Example sentences of "[Wh pn] took [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 2 | Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords . |
| 3 | Working holidays , similar to the defunct Woofer scheme ( Working Weekends on Organic Farms ) met with mixed success and varied from the chap who took all day to clean out the rabbits that I , 8½ months pregnant , did in half an hour , to those that were accompanied by their little horrors . |
| 4 | Not all of the women who took that decision were separatist by any means , but the fact that we had rejected men was not a gesture of feminism alone . |
| 5 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 6 | And who took that decision ? |
| 7 | who took that decision ? |
| 8 | I wonder who took that poster what that they had ? |
| 9 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 10 | It was who took both cars , okay ? |
| 11 | Few , if any , of them had sons or relatives who took any part in it . |
| 12 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 13 | Nithard names two of the great men who took these oaths in December 837 : Abbot Hilduin of St-Denis , most royal of western Frankish abbeys , and Count Gerald of Paris , a city which had once been a residence of Merovingian kings . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just spoken to Ted , who took those women into the bush . |
| 15 | Around half of the respondents would have clearly felt more comfortable with the question if the proposed time scale had been 5–7 days , and a great majority of those who took this approach including the vast majority of respondents who used the SPG form — suggested that 7 days would not be unreasonable . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't know whether it was the NIO or someone within the Maze who took this decision . |
| 17 | Mr Nesbit , who took this decision , said : ‘ When the match ended I was conscious of part of the Sunderland crowd starting to leave the stadium and if the team had come out people attempting to leave might have tried to return and this could have led to conflict on the steep Spion Kop terraces . ’ |
| 18 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 19 | William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line . |
| 20 | May I illustrate it with a true instance of what one industrialist did , who took this challenge seriously . |
| 21 | Also Normal Wheeler , who took several pictures between closure and demolition . |
| 22 | ‘ I would think that whoever took those things is very worried indeed now to find that I was with Harry and that he is alive . |
| 23 | Let's just hope that whoever took those drugs has n't done anything with them . ’ |