Example sentences of "took [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took each other , body and soul , for granted when we were little , Harriet , we do n't quarrel , we do n't . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … ‘ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Donna took each weapon from the case in turn , checked it and replaced it . |
| 9 | So we tended to subordinate any feelings of anger for the wellbeing of the whole community.We took each other with all our faults . |
| 10 | In their dreams their brains took each other hostage |
| 11 | They took each other 's clothes off more slowly this time , and examined each other 's bodies in more detail . |
| 12 | She gasped as he took each one in turn inside his mouth , sucking , flicking his tongue over the throbbing tips . |
| 13 | I took that . |
| 14 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 15 | It used to be in the blue mug , but Marie took that . |
| 16 | I took that as a compliment — a sign that we have become accepted as part of everyday ( country ) life . |
| 17 | The Greek prime minister , Mr Constantine Mitsotakis , looks downright incompetent : at first he said he would pardon the guilty men , then took that back and said he would merely release them . |
| 18 | Tammuz took that badness full in the face . |
| 19 | He saw that God was things , was in and of things , every sort of thing , breathing through them , breathing out of them — and if you took that presence away then the things , every sort of thing , would have no colour , no movement , no smell , no sting , no Point . |
| 20 | Shultz , for all his opposition to the Iran operation , merely told Poindexter not to inform him of details he did not need to know ; and the admiral , needing no encouragement to hold things close , took that line with other members of the cabinet . |
| 21 | Owen made his on a December day in Washington at the Jefferson Memorial , a grim day , when he had discovered that his father was dying : ‘ And I do n't know whether many of you know , but around the ceiling , engraved in the marble , is a statement that was made once … and I guess I took that to heart . ’ |
| 22 | North took that badly . |
| 23 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 24 | Armadail Swift , your great grandfather , went there too , before he took that trip in the giant balloon and was never seen again . |
| 25 | When asked why he took that particular route , he reckoned he thought it would be quicker than going along the busy main streets . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Time someone took that over , ’ he said aloud . |
| 27 | It took that length of time for The Times to reach Carewscourt from London , where it was posted every morning . |
| 28 | Swift took that secret with him to the grave . |
| 29 | There may be ten of us on Scotland Place on a Saturday night when the Morning Star got chucked out and the licensee was a feller called Pat McEwen ( he had a marine store dealer 's in Chaucer Street and took that pub ) . |
| 30 | That 's where Sonic Youth got a lot of ideas from , because their guitarist Lee Renaldo actually used to play with Glenn Branca and in a way it 's Sonic Youth that took that drone style into pop music . ’ |