Example sentences of "[adv] took [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 2 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 3 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 4 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 5 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 6 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 7 | " You only just took your first course . " |
| 8 | Her sheer emotional and physical energy nevertheless took its physical toll , and at various times in her life she abused alcohol and drugs as well as notching up a significant number of car accidents of varying degrees of seriousness . |
| 9 | Without her , Perkin would have had his way but he finally took his dangerous hand off the shaft . |
| 10 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 11 | Always took her own line , kept her horses fresh , and never jumped anything unless it was absolutely necessary . |
| 12 | LEIGHTON JAMES , the former Bradford coach and Welsh international , yesterday took his first steps on the managerial ladder when he was named as the new boss of Beazer Homes Premier Division strugglers Weymouth . |
| 13 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 14 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 15 | Shortly after this , Clare started to swap babysitting evenings with Stephanie , a mother who also took her small son to Mrs Gooden . |
| 16 | She also took her own soldiery a step further . |
| 17 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 18 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 19 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
| 20 | Simon now took his only chance to measure himself against a Formula One driver . |
| 21 | He regularly took his entire cabinet to meet the people in popular forums , making himself accountable in a way his main western critics never would . |
| 22 | CHILDLINE today took its first steps towards helping the voices of children in danger or trouble in Northern Ireland to be heard . |
| 23 | She deposited the tray on the desk , then took her own tea and a small piece of cake back to her former post , slotted a new tape into the machine for the next instalment of the story and settled down to enjoy the rest of the afternoon in peace . |
| 24 | He deposited a small pile of clothes on the end of the bed , then took her empty plate . |
| 25 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 26 | I then took my own aircraft to Kalafrana , landed and moored onto the slipway buoy . |
| 27 | The Romans never took their intellectual relations with Hellenism so seriously . |
| 28 | The reason why our homes were so cold was that the people who designed them never took our severe winter climate into consideration . |
| 29 | Of course this rant has nothing to do with the fact that the Fat DOS team recently took its first flight in a F15 and Strike Eagle . |
| 30 | I recently took my four-year-old son , Martin , to visit his Great-gran . |