Example sentences of "he took " in BNC.
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| 1 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 2 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 3 | He took me by the wrist , and held me hard , |
| 4 | He took the unprecedented step of going public on the issue , an action of which Whyte does not sufficiently stress the importance . |
| 5 | And how upset they were when he took off his hat and smiled . |
| 6 | Then , just before stepping up to sign the register , he took off his hat . |
| 7 | He took off his shoe to investigate , then heard a noise overhead and saw a flock of starlings flying past . |
| 8 | On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , and I suppose he took you with him on his rounds , did he ? |
| 10 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 11 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 12 | He took it all for granted , and would never have a clue just how blessed he was . |
| 13 | But he took off his jacket and went round the back to work with the sawyers who were cutting joists to a length . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He took a folded document from his pocket and looked at it . |
| 16 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 17 | Charles E. Wilson , the newly appointed Secretary of Defence , graduated as an engineer but soon realised there were better things in life and he took a course in commerce and went into business and is now engaged in the most complicated of businesses — that of running a country . |
| 18 | He took himself , his name and his calling seriously . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
| 21 | Down from his stocked shelves he took Shirley and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists . |
| 22 | Then he took them all to Mexico . |
| 23 | He would arrive at her door and they would begin right away , sometimes before he took his coat off . |
| 24 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 25 | And yet he took no steps to reintroduce it in later editions . |
| 26 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |
| 27 | One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 28 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 29 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 30 | He took three audacious fours off an over from Hemmings , and the loss of Vengsarkar , flicking at one of Fraser 's worst deliveries , did nothing to sober him up . |