Example sentences of "took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the week the BBC took the opportunity to broadcast part of another pre-recorded interview on Radio 4 's ‘ File on 4 ’ , while Capital Radio broadcast a four-part feature on AIDS , again including a ‘ canned ’ interview with Patrick . |
| 2 | Proust took the view that writers should be judged by their works alone , rather than be interpreted through biography . |
| 3 | Max Friedlander , an outstanding scholar of Northern European art , took the view that accepting a work into an artist 's oeuvre was like recognising a friend , not a matter of measurement or detailed scrutiny . |
| 4 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 5 | I took the dramatic Poem Maud by Tennyson — all fourteen hundred lines — and learnt them and presented them working with two friends , a designer and a lighting man . |
| 6 | It is to be noted that , in this , it was the laity who took the initiative . |
| 7 | He took the unprecedented step of going public on the issue , an action of which Whyte does not sufficiently stress the importance . |
| 8 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 9 | ‘ We took the liberty of asking our friend Percy Hoskins to join us for dinner . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean the work of Mr Clancy , ’ said Peggy , as he stood up and took the towel she gave him . |
| 11 | Hers was on the floor by the bedside table — she 'd probably knocked it off when she had a glass of water , or when she took the veronal . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I took the tray in yesterday morning , ’ said Ethel , ‘ she did n't register a thing . ’ |
| 13 | I think they had their fun , she took the veronal to sleep soundly , then when she was far gone he smothered her . ’ |
| 14 | Edith took the plates to Margot Iverson 's end of the table , where the vegetables were served , and then handed them in turn to the guests . |
| 15 | I took the flowers over to one of the sinks and put them in it . |
| 16 | When I arrived at the station , I took the next train back to London . |
| 17 | I took the mug in my hands . |
| 18 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 19 | Weeding after a week away took the entire 60-minute ration of time |
| 20 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 21 | She took the bones of Lucy 's text , then fleshed them out a little here and there . |
| 22 | Faces turned , bodies gave way a little , and he went up to the Cross and took the crumpled sheet . |
| 23 | MacDiarmid took the quill and signed , his face like a paper mask . |
| 24 | It was close here — midges crawled on his forehead under his fringe — abstractedly he took the handle of the rake and rumpled it lightly across the nearest hay , turning it over . |
| 25 | I took the simple biblical past … |
| 26 | Having found both America and Canada limiting — for different reasons — he took the only other course open to him , he went east : to Europe which then meant London . |
| 27 | He finished typing , took the paper from the machine and gave it to her . |
| 28 | When I finished I took the lift down to the typing pool . |
| 29 | Double-spaced , with side heads in caps , ’ then took the lift up again . |
| 30 | I took the folders to my office . |