Example sentences of "[conj] took [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , clipping was a spring rite or took place on the patronal festival . |
| 2 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 3 | He was also one of those who formed the force that took part in the famous Dr. Jamieson 's Raid that led to the outbreak of the Boer War , and after the war , was a farmer in Rhodesia for ten years before returning to Scotland , where he died in 1951 . |
| 4 | also had one of its diesel locos on show and the many people that took part in the sponsored walk along the tracks to Mells Road , three miles towards Frome , were able to see the other two locos and the site of where the association will have its engineering base . |
| 5 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 6 | The five practices that took part in the shadow exercise became real fundholders in October 1991 and two other practices are participating in the small practice shadow exercise . |
| 7 | A sunken wreck in the Severn by Worcester racecourse is all that remains of the Tarka , a former lifeboat that took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 . |
| 8 | Note that the surface of this species bears encrusting oysters of a species that took advantage of the hard surface of the dead gastropod . |
| 9 | In Chapter 5 of that book , entitled ‘ The Problem of the Empirical Base ’ , he set out an account of observation and observation statements that took account of the fact that infallible observation statements are not given directly through sensory perceptions . |
| 10 | That was a gesture that took account of the political clout of America 's environmentalists . |
| 11 | The reorganisation that took effect from the beginning of 1991 brought together all the Land Survey groups , Regional Geophysics , and a new group , Tectonics and Databases , formed by merging Land Survey database staff in Keyworth and Edinburgh and the old Deep Geology Unit . |
| 12 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 13 | The fulfilment or non-fulfilment of inflated ‘ plans ’ does not , of course , detract from the very real increases in industrial production that took place during the FFYP . |
| 14 | Would they be pre-conflict borders , the borders on the map , Yugoslav internal federal borders , or the borders that exist after the conflict and the damage that took place during the capture of towns such as Osijek and Vukovar ? |
| 15 | Verbal battles followed in the columns of local newspapers , reminiscent of the rows that took place during the five-year struggle to build the theatre . |
| 16 | But in the view of the action , the event that took place with the bomb scare there are s there are some reviews of security measures being undertaken . |
| 17 | It is appropriate at this point to digress for a moment on the subject of the faunistic changes that took place at the end of the Palaeozoic . |
| 18 | Well , the figures are there , it 's , it 's following the , the very substantial debate that took place at the last County Council meeting , on the issue of earnings within Shropshire , it 's to give the Committee a bit more detailed information about the position , and , and particularly I think , the position about female earnings in the County er , where we 're , we 're really at the bottom of , of the U K lists . |
| 19 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 20 | If the body had come there as a result of a crime that took place on the river , then the River Police with their specialised knowledge of tides and shipping were the obvious people to investigate it . |
| 21 | This is a delayed report on a one day conference that took place on the 27th April 1991 at the Gateway Centre , Shrewsbury . |
| 22 | Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan . |
| 23 | And God has only ever , and only ever will send one pentecost , and that took place on the day of pentecost , the birthday , the birth of the church . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 25 | Drachenfels found that he who listened correctly could see , hear , smell and even taste every act of wickedness that took place within the chambers and warrens of the building . |
| 26 | Anderson 's study of Preston has also emphasized the amount of movement that took place within the town . |
| 27 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |
| 28 | There is a plaque on the wall of an abbey near the Hague which records a strange event that took place in the thirteenth century : |
| 29 | The complex series of financial switches , deceptions and double deals they concocted were far more extensive than any of the comparatively small scams that took place in the US . |
| 30 | From the significant number of representations of bull-leaping on frescoes and sealstones , it is possible to reconstruct with some confidence the events that took place in the Bull Courts . |