Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] took [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 2 | On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot . |
| 3 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | It 's bits I took off the sheets is that , that I er |
| 5 | ‘ That is when you will discover if all those decisions you took during the last three years were the right ones . |
| 6 | We decided to accelerate the measures already under way to improve efficiency and reduce costs , and this resulted in the exceptional charges we took at the half-year . |
| 7 | But the resistance people , allowed to keep the arms they took from the Iraqis , have their own network in the police and the army . |
| 8 | First to the lens was BRETT ANDERSON , and with his unfeasibly long arms he took to the shape perfectly . |
| 9 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 10 | " Hey , " he said , " was it — are you the guy who made those commercials , the ones they took off the air ? " |
| 11 | And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains . |
| 12 | After the tea he suggested that they play cards , already shuffling the cards he took from the sill . |