Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 2 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 3 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 4 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 5 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 6 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |