Example sentences of "really took " in BNC.
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| 1 | He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today . |
| 2 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 3 | The idea really took off in America where , by the 1890s , Brownells , a large tour operator , relied on local travel agents throughout the United States to sell their tours . |
| 4 | This really took our minds off the enemy above . |
| 5 | The officers had their Saracen 's Head but the Lincoln Naafi Club really took some beating . |
| 6 | Mike Benton in his article on the rhynchosaurs ( 7 April , p 9 ) suggests that the so-called battle for survival really took place between the food-source plants and not between the animals themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ The response was so amazing , ’ Chris recalls , ‘ that we went on to exhibit in London and the business really took off . ’ |
| 8 | The very worst time came when Mother really took ill . |
| 9 | In the event , however , it was a glossy book from the Town Planning Ministry in 1986 that really took the message to the public — and that message was so remarkable that it deserves examination in some detail . |
| 10 | Strolling with his owner through a field littered with pebbles and stones , he suddenly spotted one in the crowd that really took his fancy . |
| 11 | He really took to reading at a very early age . |
| 12 | I really took to golf , too . |
| 13 | THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE MARKET It was n't until the legislation governing PEPs was relaxed that they really took off — but now investors are being attracted in droves |
| 14 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 15 | I believe that it never really took off but it was ideal for use with water-power . |
| 16 | Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves . |
| 17 | It really took the late-Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to ’ |
| 18 | It really took the late Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to . |
| 19 | Nintendo 's machines hit British shops in autumn 1990 but it was last Christmas , when it outsold everything else in sight and picked up the prestigious Toy Of The Year award , that things really took off . |
| 20 | The massacre really took place on Saint Peter 's Field , but a sharp writer on the radical Manchester Observer linked the outrage to the battle of Waterloo , coming up with the headline ‘ Peterloo ’ . |
| 21 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 22 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |
| 23 | He really took the matter to heart and finally wrote his Master 's thesis on the subject . |
| 24 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 26 | ‘ The first time I really took Jo on board was before I 'd ever met her . |
| 27 | The truth of this matter seems to be that the authors of the Convention never really took into account the mobile quality of people and documents . |
| 28 | Neither he nor his associates really took alarm when Scottish forces began to assemble on Abbey Craig , a hill beside the Forth near Stirling . |
| 29 | There are a few in the field of Art education today , ill-informed about what really took place in the West Riding in the 1950s and 60s who say , " Oh yes , that was about drawing from observation , with youngsters making copies from natural objects " . |
| 30 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |