Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 2 | But one ought to remember too that outsiders and the representatives of central authority were usually scathing about any county other than their own , and locals invariably took a perverse pride in any peculiarities . |
| 3 | Members of the estates then took a public oath that no trace of these hated documents should be preserved . |
| 4 | HUNDREDS of pensioners yesterday took a 16ft-high blow-up Robert Maxwell on parade to demand tough new laws protecting retirement funds . |
| 5 | He frowned at this suspected future injustice , but the next moment he remembered the siege and the fact that there was every chance that he would not live to suffer the humiliations of old age , and his thoughts promptly took a different line : " After so many hardships , how sad to be deprived of the tranquil evening of one 's life ! " |
| 6 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 7 | When ASWs made assessments , social factors frequently took a high profile , as social rather than mental health problems were considered primary . |
| 8 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |