Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she took extra care if she was out with them alone . |
| 2 | She took little notice until it reappeared on her own side , and drew up alongside her . |
| 3 | And one time in Austin it was really bad 'cos we took some acid before we played and I felt really small , like I could n't do anything , like wooahh ! , like vertigo . |
| 4 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 5 | They took such action as they could to prevent further distribution . |
| 6 | The level of SR activity declined sharply and in the pre-war period they took less advantage than did the SDs of the opportunities for legal activity . |
| 7 | George , 61 , and wife Betty , 60 , have had to watch the pennies since he took early retirement when his hospital was privatised . |
| 8 | At Milan he took high-speed films while his animals ran along the force plates . |
| 9 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 10 | The lawyer was a technician , a man who manipulated the judicial system , and he took any case as long as the client could pay the appropriate fee . |
| 11 | After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port . |
| 12 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 13 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 14 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 15 | It took long moments before Caroline calmed down enough to remember that she had not sprung the little trap she 'd set . |
| 16 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
| 17 | It took more courage than she knew she possessed to follow him . |
| 18 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 19 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 20 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 21 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 22 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 23 | When replacing the case for example , it took several attempts before it was positioned correctly , and the power button worked properly again . |
| 24 | It took several minutes before they were ready to leave , and even then Mabel hovered in the doorway , saying plaintively , ‘ You wo n't be long , will you ? |
| 25 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 26 | Edward , given a private room , discovered the problem first hand : it took twenty minutes before he raised the operator , and another ten before he was talking to Flight Lieutenant Benson . |
| 27 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |
| 28 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 29 | It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water . |
| 30 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |