Example sentences of "took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each image was comprised of 128×128 pixels and took 128 msec to take . |
| 2 | There was a large contingent of buyers from Eire who took 32 rams in total . |
| 3 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 4 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 5 | The beards were tested on a recent NASA space mission , where astronauts took ten-hour shifts putting the beards through their paces in a number of varied situations . |
| 6 | In 1952 , his best season when he took 75 wickets , Surridge became captain . |
| 7 | Russia took 75 per cent ; Moldova and Ukraine would finance in full the troops on their territories and participate in financing joint forces through absolute contributions ; Tajikistan , Kirgizstan and Turkmenistan were not paying for the upkeep of troops on their territory . |
| 8 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 9 | Resenting this , and probably thinking that the requirement would be as short-lived as the fortunes of war , many of the peasants took derisive and ribald names . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 11 | Adult logic took strange forms . |
| 12 | Despite its recent problems , the LDP won 46 per cent of the vote and took 275 of the 512 seats , only 20 fewer than the party had controlled in the outgoing Diet . |
| 13 | When industrial interest groups failed to get help , they took political action against the military . |
| 14 | Our captors took political and spiritual guidance from Khomeini , who had condemned Rushdie to death . |
| 15 | Women took two-thirds of 1982 psychology degrees and half of 1984 psychology doctorates . |
| 16 | We took each other , body and soul , for granted when we were little , Harriet , we do n't quarrel , we do n't . |
| 17 | For an overview we took each party 's average score across the four party images , and each leader 's average score across the twelve leader images . |
| 18 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 19 | There was a sort of host who dished out the sherry and took each new arrival round the groups ; though as there were quite a lot of us he could n't remember all our names so we were forced to say them . |
| 20 | The Princesse and Portia looked on as mother and daughter , now almost of an equal height , one blonde , the other dark , took each other in . |
| 21 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 22 | Next , he took each hand in turn , and smeared the greasy oil between her fingers , and thence upwards to the slope of her shapely shoulders . |
| 23 | Donna took each weapon from the case in turn , checked it and replaced it . |
| 24 | So we tended to subordinate any feelings of anger for the wellbeing of the whole community.We took each other with all our faults . |
| 25 | In their dreams their brains took each other hostage |
| 26 | They took each other 's clothes off more slowly this time , and examined each other 's bodies in more detail . |
| 27 | She gasped as he took each one in turn inside his mouth , sucking , flicking his tongue over the throbbing tips . |
| 28 | Probably very little , for we have already seen that Anthony Tissington took Tilberthwaite mining rights in 1759 . |
| 29 | By 1973 this measure was considered inadequate and the government took total control of the mining companies . |
| 30 | But Davies restored the Cambridge situation with a 62nd-minute penalty and the Light Blues took total control with a wonderful try inspired by Peters . |