Example sentences of "took an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 2 | She took an old carpet , filled it with soil and put it in the front room , where Annie and her brother spent the day . |
| 3 | However Massine in The Three-Cornered Hat took an entirely different view . |
| 4 | Max took an instant dislike to her and from then on , when she tried to speak , he would howl like a wolf and I got a dreadful fit of the giggles ! |
| 5 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 6 | David Lodge was another established British academic and writer who took an early interest in formalist and structuralist methods and principles . |
| 7 | THE LENGTHY battle for control of New York 's cellular telephone franchise took an unexpected turn yesterday as McCaw Cellular announced a $1.9bn deal to acquire the half stake owned by the Metromedia group . |
| 8 | Giants , trailing by seven points after the first leg , took an aggregate lead as early as the fourth minute , but their game never flowed as missed shots and tired , sloppy defence allowed the Finns to stay in touch through their prolific three-point shooters . |
| 9 | Bull 's equaliser , though it took an hour to arrive , might also have been stamped ‘ copyright ’ . |
| 10 | An influx of bright youngtalent was set to work under a dashing editor , Falklands hero Max Hastings , who occasionally took an independent , anti-government line . |
| 11 | Richard Nixon , even when he was running against John Kennedy in 1960 , took an entirely different view . |
| 12 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 13 | It took an enormous amount of television coverage to produce only a small change in the public agenda ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 14 | Because the number of members who took an active part in the fund-raising is comparatively small , the true amount contributed by everyone who was actually involved was more than £200 . |
| 15 | The ciderheads took an instant liking to these fellow dropouts who also slept rough and were equally unsteady on their feet . |
| 16 | Pete and I took an afternoon ferry from Leknes to Napp , and sweltered the bikes over an unnamed pass to Vareid . |
| 17 | Everyone took an interest . |
| 18 | On coming home , one , because of psychological stress and the consequences of not having resolved anything , preferred not to face the future — and therefore took an overdose . |
| 19 | It took an injured knee to convince the 28-year-old star that he wanted to become an actor . |
| 20 | They performed a series of tests and took an identical snack every 3 hours throughout the study . |
| 21 | This process of ‘ let's pretend ’ took an irreversible step forward one September night in 1931 , when Lewis was entertaining J. R. R. Tolkien to dinner at Magdalen . |
| 22 | Peter Scantlebury took an age to find his range . |
| 23 | Valenzuela took an active part in this dirty war . |
| 24 | He was a excellent linguist , and took an intense delight in linguistic minutiae — his friends remember many entertaining dinner-table disquisitions on etymologies , sometimes punctuated by visits to the OED . |
| 25 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 26 | Their huts were 12 hours ' journey from the nearest main road , and the occasional and always unexpected arrival of the maximo lider was a cause for rejoicing and an indication that somebody , somewhere actually cared for them and took an interest in their otherwise isolated and neglected lives . |
| 27 | There was ZTT 's Frankie Goes To Hollywood , and Propaganda ; Paul Morley promoted them on the assumption that pop was run by flabby-faced cowards who did n't even know how to do their own job — in other words , it took an aesthete to know and score a hit . |
| 28 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 've got to say , I think in a way cocaine can really freeze your emotions , and David took an awful lot . |
| 29 | He took an experimental mouthful of fried egg and waited to see if it was going to suit him , then progressed to the baked beans , cautiously . |
| 30 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |