Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underneath his impudent and occasionally violent behaviour lay a fundamentally nice , simple , easy-going , exceptionally warm-hearted character , in whom Minton took much pleasure . |
| 2 | I soon learned to say as little as possible , meanwhile doing my best to cultivate a London or ‘ Cockney ’ accent , which my parents took great pains both to prevent and to correct . |
| 3 | Can he confirm that he will not extend national insurance contributions to savings , because a large number of my constituents took early retirement from the coal industry and use their savings to supplement their income ? |
| 4 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 5 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 6 | When I got home my dad took one look at it and said , you look like a bleeding nancy boy . |
| 7 | When Kimi lost the babies last April , her sister took four days off . |
| 8 | The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer . |
| 9 | The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer . |
| 10 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 11 | In their dreams their brains took each other hostage |
| 12 | But they was living at Trebyan up to when Matthew got married ; then their father took that house in P'nzance next to the shop . |
| 13 | Joshua 's command to the sun to stand still was best understood , according to Galileo , as a command to halt the sun 's rotation on its axis — a rotation in which Galileo took special interest since it was required by his interpretation of the sunspots . |
| 14 | The food was not very nice ; the regiment of cutlery ranged either side of her plate took any appetite away . |
| 15 | Her training took long hours . |
| 16 | Her walk took two hours , until she reached the hill overlooking the Valley of the Great Dairies . |
| 17 | With only one medical officer on hand , their release took some time . |
| 18 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | From beginning to end its composition took 18 days — the kind of speedwriting record only surpassed by Rossini . |
| 20 | Their preparations took several forms . |
| 21 | This phrase , the force of which may be lost on the present generation , had been made familiar by another Miss West , the buxom and sultry film-star ; the similarity of nomenclature was a coincidence of which Eliot took full advantage . |
| 22 | Whiteman , who played in the 1992 debacle , must have been spurred on by the memory as his rink took 13 shots over the last six ends while preventing the opposition from any further score . |
| 23 | Almost equal , but not quite , because Luke still seemed to retain a vestige of control while she trembled wildly as his hands slid adroitly up over her ribcage to cup her breasts from beneath , lifting them to the swooping descent of his dark head ; and she heard him mutter intensely again just before his mouth took voluptuous possession of the heated hardness of one exquisitely sensitive nipple . |
| 24 | His study took three months to prepare and , considers the markets available , it considers things like recycling credits that the councils can give you . |
| 25 | He was very demoralized and his recovery took many weeks . |
| 26 | Yet perhaps Thomas Hopkins and his wife took some solace in so commemorating the death of their eldest son . |
| 27 | His ADC took great exception , but then Joe was able to say " all Aides des Camps — piss off ! " . |
| 28 | The library of 4,500 antiquarian religious books assembled by him and his son took 16 days to auction in London in 1849 after his death . |
| 29 | His companions took extreme precautions against being followed : the place , they said , was alive with Abwehr and Gestapo men . |
| 30 | Ooh , our Tommy took that mat key , but he took it down home , |