Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phased out by 1980 , they used to bridge the gap between the maintained and independent sectors , being grammar schools which took fee-paying pupils but also provided free places for able children from poorer homes who were financed by a direct grant from the government . |
| 2 | The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish . |
| 3 | In the past 200 years , America has accomplished feats which took other countries years to achieve . |
| 4 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
| 5 | Right , when I went to Turkey , I had three jabs before I went away and every two days I took two tablets . |
| 6 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 7 | The object of the Act was to protect the minority of unwary consumers from possible exploitation by the minority of unscrupulous lenders who took unfair advantage for their own gain of their ‘ victims ’ ignorance . |
| 8 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 9 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 10 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 11 | The new procedures were well received by the delegates who took full advantage of the opportunity to clarify the administrative details relating to the Pilot Courses . |
| 12 | We can see from the Unemployed Flow Survey that the proportion of people finding work within 10 months of registration as job seekers who took temporary jobs varied with the level of unemployment in their area . |
| 13 | Few , if any , of them had sons or relatives who took any part in it . |
| 14 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 15 | Star performers included Bill Holland of KPMG Peat Marwick who scored 95 of the Institute 's 250 for five wickets declared , and captain Feroze Dada of Freeman & Partners who took four wickets for 70 . |
| 16 | HERE are the stars who took top honours at the MTV Awards . |
| 17 | Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords . |
| 18 | Nithard names two of the great men who took these oaths in December 837 : Abbot Hilduin of St-Denis , most royal of western Frankish abbeys , and Count Gerald of Paris , a city which had once been a residence of Merovingian kings . |
| 19 | We went through in two minutes what took other people an hour and a half . |
| 20 | Other absentees at the trial were local government officials who contravened Italian law by allowing the plant to vent directly to the outside world and others who took 16 days to evacuate Seveso . |
| 21 | Not all of the women who took that decision were separatist by any means , but the fact that we had rejected men was not a gesture of feminism alone . |
| 22 | Although it was the men of Kent and the other home counties who took leading parts Sussex did not escape . |
| 23 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 24 | the team was hoisted onto open trucks which took five hours to crawl the three mile distance from Lahore Airport to the Fortress Stadium with thousands and thousands of fans running alongside the procession . |