Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 2 | I used to drink really quite strong before , but I decided to give up erm , like , take less sugar , so if you take less sugar , I think I only took two sugars anyway , 'cos my tea was so strong , 'cos 'cos the stronger it is , you need more sugar to sweeten it . |
| 3 | I only took three quarters of an hour to get there . |
| 4 | Ludo and I just took one side each and approached every table with snapshots of Tamsin . |
| 5 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 6 | I then took another taxi . |
| 7 | With me being a football fan , Leeds Utd to be more specific , I never took much interest in tennis . |
| 8 | She felt the sting of treacherous tears , her enemy in these past few months , lurking , waiting to consume her , and she hastily took another mouthful from the bottle , biting her lips , slightly numb from cold and champagne , to stop the tears spilling down her cheeks and overwhelming her completely . |
| 9 | You never took that form to school . |
| 10 | You never took any notice of her . |
| 11 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 12 | My complaining was only effective cos we actually took direct action over some advertising for erm swim wear . |
| 13 | We therefore took this data into consideration when calculating the superhelical densities of the different plasmid preparations . |
| 14 | The build-up of ozone-destroying chemicals has slowed more rapidly than expected , even before international agreements to phase them out took full effect . |
| 15 | One commonly heard complaint from relatives is that ‘ I was told she was too disturbed for the council day centre as they could n't stop her from wandering out ’ , yet ‘ The doctor at the day hospital said they only took short-term cases , people who could get better and move on . ’ |
| 16 | Although they only took 20 minutes to arrive , if George could have given a map reference , as well as his address , they could have got there that much sooner . |
| 17 | These meetings took place every year until 1965 , they usually took one day and the French participants used to call them ‘ Cashmere meetings ’ because , after voicing their disinclination to cooperate , they would leave and go to buy Scottish pullovers . |
| 18 | They also took private papers relating to the large South Ronaldsay family Mr and Mrs T had been trying to help , and a library book written by a social worker on sexual abuse . |
| 19 | They then took two weeks ' holiday and , on their return , gave one week 's notice and left when this notice period expired . |
| 20 | They then took 30 minutes to an hour to settle again . |
| 21 | They never took proper time over it . ’ |
| 22 | But they never took any notice ? |
| 23 | They too took prompt action . |
| 24 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 25 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
| 26 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 27 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 28 | It usually took four policemen to control her . |
| 29 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 30 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |