Example sentences of "[noun] he took [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to my feet he took the injured arm in both his hands , told me to shut my eyes and start counting . |
| 2 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 3 | In Canada he took every military course available to him . |
| 4 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 5 | Lorre put his arm around the bush , soothing it as if it were a favourite niece in whose person he took an unhealthy interest . |
| 6 | On occasion he took a personal interest in the apprehension and punishment of poachers who took his deer , and his Attorney-General took proceedings in the Star Chamber against offenders in the Wiltshire forests . |
| 7 | From his jacket pocket he took a small vanity mirror and adjusted his hair . |
| 8 | Looking like a scholarly Foreign Office man he took the hard-selling American advertising world of those days aback by the very stealth of his approach . |
| 9 | With his wife and daughter he took a small cottage in the Market Square , ( adjacent to the Red Lion and opposite the White Lion ) , and there seven more children were born , though not all of them grew to maturity . |
| 10 | Off the back of the door he took an old net shopping-bag that his Mum hardly ever used and stuffed the carton and biscuits into it . |
| 11 | From the centre he took the flat velour package of gems and held them out . |
| 12 | His eyes blazed with a sudden fury , and as she cringed away from him in horror he took a deep breath and ruthlessly controlled himself till nothing but the white-boned knuckles showed his internal rage . |
| 13 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 14 | On his second wave he took a steep drop and his nose dug in . |
| 15 | When she approached the youth he took a hesitant step back but froze to the spot on seeing Graham 's threatening look . |
| 16 | From another box he took a large rose . |
| 17 | In 1979 and 1980 , Zeng spent his summers on cycling holidays to Hangzhou and Shanghai , and the following year he took the unprecedented step of applying to his work unit for extended leave to travel , even threatening to resign if his wishes were not granted . |
| 18 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 19 | As he raced up the narrow track he took a quick look over his shoulder . |
| 20 | Throughout this time he took a keen personal interest in the education of young engineers , especially in the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute , which he founded in 1888 . |