Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 2 | The Scots also took French language modules at varying levels from 2 to 5 . |
| 3 | The route stretches some twelve to fifteen miles and parties often took two days and a night to make the journey , leaving the corpse in the " deadhouse " at Blades ( now ill ruins ) overnight . |
| 4 | The officers had their Saracen 's Head but the Lincoln Naafi Club really took some beating . |
| 5 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 6 | President Assad evidently took great comfort from the international onslaught on Saddam Hussein , his hated Baathist rival , and from the way the crisis reflected on another old adversary , PLO Chair Yassir Arafat . |
| 7 | In many battles they proved their willingness to spill their own blood in defence of the human lands and Teclis and Finreir both took many wounds . |
| 8 | Customs then took three weeks to have a closer look at the booty ( oh yeah ) . |
| 9 | At the point of entry into the study , the mean sugar scores were comparable in the ursodeoxycholic acid ( 8.4 ( 1.3 ) points ) and diet ( 8.6 ( 1.1 ) ) groups but , largely because three obese individuals in the placebo group consistently took large amounts of refined carbohydrates , the mean score in this group was 13.6 ( 1.9 ) . |
| 10 | On Friday 6 June night shift workers again took unofficial action when a mixed material containing asbestos dust spilled . |
| 11 | Since Jasper and Bienvida never went to bed until Tina did but fell asleep wherever they happened to be , Jarvis hardly took this protest seriously . |
| 12 | UNITA also took second place in the legislative elections . |
| 13 | In addition to this and other commissions , Mozart also took some pupils , including the daughter of the Count of Guines , to whom he was attempting to teach composition . |
| 14 | Portadown 's Peter Duke also took first place in the Star of Tomorrow FF1600 race . |
| 15 | Most Germans now took little interest in politics , becoming cynical about the authoritarian and military values of the past , and uncertain of what to put in their place . |
| 16 | The Constitution thereby took immediate effect . |
| 17 | Bow bureau , for example , was without a manager for some time and the staff temporarily took collective responsibility for all tasks . |
| 18 | His father also took holy orders while Hilbert , practising as a solicitor in Ipswich , took care of himself by marrying a rich woman . |
| 19 | But the 25-year-old tour newcomer also took three putts at the seventeenth , spinning out of the hole from three feet , then went into sand at the last thinning his recovery . |
| 20 | The intrusive Boswell then took another liberty — ; that of pointing out to Johnson ‘ that he very often sat quite silent for a long time , even when in company with only a single friend ’ , at which Johnson reminded Boswell of an acquaintance who had once observed , ‘ Sir , you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to . ’ |
| 21 | Franco never took major steps when in doubt . |
| 22 | The other mare obligingly took little interest in the proceedings — until the Beirut-Sharjah leg . |
| 23 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 24 | Since , on average , the target word actually took 369 milliseconds to say on the recording subjects were listening to , this means that subjects had often pressed the button before they had heard all of the target word . |
| 25 | The two sides yesterday took dramatic strides towards ending a century of hatred as the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Jewish state negotiated recognition of each other . |
| 26 | know if the police ever took any action , particularly about these ladies who died , did you hear |
| 27 | But Parks also took memorable portraits for Harpers Bazaar of subjects such as the surrealist patron Edward James , and of Noël Coward , who had some words of advice for the young photographer . |
| 28 | Since she was utterly devoted to my father , her children inevitably took second place . |
| 29 | At first , the Japanese simply took stranded whales for food . |
| 30 | The production of the draft report actually took less time than anticipated and was available by October 1984 — some seven months after the appraisal . |