Example sentences of "[pron] took [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans have escaped the grip of hunger thanks to the ceasefire , which took hold last November , and to the good rains that have at last broken a severe drought . |
| 2 | In a debate on science in the House of Commons last week , Clarke argued that level funding next year was justified by big rises in the past , ‘ especially the big 8 per cent uplift which took place two years ago ’ . |
| 3 | I think it was my time with him which explains an incident which took place thirty years later . |
| 4 | Many guests indeed complained not of ennui but of exhaustion brought on by accompanying Eugénie while she scampered up and down rocks , or by long walks and excursions in the area around the palace which took place most days after lunch . |
| 5 | A student protest against education loans which took place three years later in central London also ran into trouble . |
| 6 | I welcome the change of policy , which took place some time ago under my right hon. and learned Friend 's sponsorship , of increasing investment in the railways . |
| 7 | The reduction and payroll costs of five million or six point eight per cent reflects the staff reductions which took place last year These are efficiency gains primarily in areas of management and distribution . |
| 8 | Just to show that ‘ God 's Own County ’ actually takes a back seat now and again I reproduce a photograph from the Divisional Dinner , which took place last autumn but was not published to allow other articles ( from other Divisions ) to be printed . |
| 9 | Relations were already tense between the generals and the elected government of President Patricio Aylwin , which took office last March . |
| 10 | Mr Badran , who took office two weeks ago , said that martial law imposed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had been ‘ frozen ’ and would soon be formally scrapped . |
| 11 | During the beginning of the first set , Toni feeling the desire to communicate with the audience , commenced with the question , ’ How many of you took Ecstasy last year ? ’ |
| 12 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 13 | Conservative borough councillors planned to sell the run-down site as a shopping development but Labour scrapped the plan when they took power last May . |
| 14 | He took Coleman several times through Sami Jafaar 's part in the Fawaz Younis affair and the circumstances of Jafaar 's subsequent posting to Switzerland for Operation polar Cap , which was just getting under way as the debriefing took place . |
| 15 | He took tutorials three times a week at twelve , and a daily lecture at two o'clock ; that left him the mornings free for research or writing . |
| 16 | The flamboyant Littlewoods millionaire was n't everyone 's choice when he took control last year . |
| 17 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 18 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |
| 19 | Although a phenomenal critical and box-office success , it took Stone ten years to raise the finance , eventually obtaining it through the British Hemdale company . |
| 20 | It took Daphne several attempts to explain what ‘ riding to hounds ’ actually meant , though she had to admit that even Eliza Doolittle would have been hard pushed to understand fully why they bothered with the exercise in the first place . |
| 21 | It took Quakers 19 minutes to produce any noteworthy effort , a Nick Cusack left-foot shot that slipped just wide of the post , and they almost equalised after 29 minutes when Fashanu flicked Andy Toman 's left wing corner against his own bar but the rebound fell to a Torquay defender . |
| 22 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 23 | It took Corky all day to get this far and then he fainted in front of the C64 ! |
| 24 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 25 | IT TOOK experts three days to restore a 300 year old building after Annie Lennox filmed her latest video there . |
| 26 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 27 | It took Britain four centuries rather than four generations to complete the cycle . |
| 28 | It took Simon three months to finish it , working just at weekends . |
| 29 | It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure . |
| 30 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |