Example sentences of "[noun] he took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 2 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 3 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 4 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |
| 5 | He played for Sussex from 1912 to 1937 , during which period he took 2,211 wickets for Sussex at an individual cost of 17.41 runs . |
| 6 | At Milan he took high-speed films while his animals ran along the force plates . |
| 7 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 8 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 9 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 10 | In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42 . |
| 11 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 12 | Instead he makes you privy to the way he took certain shots , coping with available light , wind , wet knees and so on . |
| 13 | Earlier this year he took third prize for his leeks in the British Championship and scooped the top prize in the Welsh Onion Championship . |
| 14 | During his American trip he took six wickets in six balls , bowling underarm against teams composed of twenty-two men from the USA and Canada . |
| 15 | just missing out on a win was local powerboater Steve Kerton … in the French round of the world formula one championships at Chalon he took second place but is still chasing hard for the crown … which he 's never won … |
| 16 | His previous home had been completely refurbished by interior designers , so this time he took great pleasure in creating his own individual style . |
| 17 | An officer soon afterwards , and finally Captain Coetzee by the time he took early retirement in 1986 . |
| 18 | that time he took this fridge and you kept asking him if he were selling it cos w it were empty were n't it , and he says no it 's a load of rubbish . |
| 19 | In fact he took neither course ; in his own account — in The Prelude — he gives the impression of a drifter , ‘ detached from academic cares ’ , and he tells us that he ‘ did not love … our scholastic studies ’ . |