Example sentences of "took another " in BNC.
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1 | While the wife was getting dressed I took another cherry from the packet and prepared the thing . |
2 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
3 | THE LONG and winding road that Jo Durie 's career has followed over the past 10 years , took another nasty twist yesterday when she missed the chance to keep Britain in the Federation Cup . |
4 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
5 | And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side . |
6 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
7 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
8 | She took another sip of wine and smiled crookedly . |
9 | Fritz took another step forward and almost fell over his feet . |
10 | Mrs Morgan took another biscuit and accepted another cup of tea . |
11 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |
12 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
13 | Forlornly , I shuffled over to the machine and took another number . |
14 | Trapped like a guilty thing between them , Frankie lowered his head and took another bite from his worm-cake . |
15 | Then he took another . |
16 | Biff nodded and took another pull . |
17 | He took another step . |
18 | He took another step . |
19 | To Play The King by Michael Dobbs HarperCollins , £9.99 ‘ THE young man reached across his desk , grabbed the cup , and took another slug of Mrs Stagg 's disgusting tea . |
20 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
21 | Cheetham took another glass and filled it . |
22 | Then I started getting involved with the women and that took another three or four weeks because that was a different world with another set of rules . |
23 | M. Dupont took another pause during which his gaze travelled in an almost leisurely manner around all the faces fixed upon him . |
24 | I took another overdose , but I was too tired of living and too tired to die properly . |
25 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
26 | Milton took another sip of his cocktail . |
27 | Elinor took another swig of sherry and Henry arranged wine glasses at each place . |
28 | England training took another twenty years to get organized . |
29 | I then took another taxi . |
30 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |