Example sentences of "[conj] he took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 2 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 4 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 5 | When Max Streibl , the incumbent , recently ran into trouble over allegations that he took free trips from a defence company , Mr Waigel spied an escape from his travails in Bonn . |
| 6 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 7 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 8 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 9 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |
| 10 | And he took two cartridges out of his pocket . |
| 11 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 12 | And then we started the rehearsal scene and Rock Hudson walks in and he took one look at me and says , ‘ Where are my glasses ? ’ |
| 13 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |
| 14 | Karajan saw his orchestra have major successes in this symphony under two guest conductors , Barbirolli and Bernstein , and he took good care to record it himself ( magnificently ) in 1982 , also at a Berlin Festival Week concert which was recorded ‘ live ’ , as was Bernstein 's . |
| 15 | In July 1978 , his ambitions on the educational front were well stoked up and he took six CSEs . |
| 16 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 17 | He found another job last month , at the local tights factory in Sutton in Ashfield , Notts , and he took voluntary redundancy . |
| 18 | The lawyer was a technician , a man who manipulated the judicial system , and he took any case as long as the client could pay the appropriate fee . |
| 19 | After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port . |
| 20 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 21 | If he took one side of the street during a walkabout the crowd collectively groaned , it was his wife they had come to see . |
| 22 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 23 | If he took more staff on and they were say filling up provisions , putting the pies out every day is taking the department forward , it 's an everyday task . |
| 24 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 25 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 26 | His neat modern home — his study stuffed with the 100 or so original runners for the 1989 Booker Prize , whose judging panel he is chairing — is still close to the University of Birmingham , where he became Professor of English in 1976 , but he took early retirement two years ago . |
| 27 | The domestic events of the spring of 1937 were not without importance but he took small part in them , and a cursory reading of the Cabinet minutes might suggest that he had already retired in mind . |
| 28 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 29 | There he delegated elementary instruction to an assistant , while he took advanced students , following the example of Jesus ( Mark 4 : 34 ) . |
| 30 | Would they wait now while he took another slice off the joint ? |