Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 2 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 3 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's fine , ’ she said , but as soon as she took a few practice steps forward , the edges of the bale , on either side of the binding rope . |
| 5 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 6 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 7 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 8 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 9 | They took the same tube for the first few stops . |
| 10 | When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach . |
| 11 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 12 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 13 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 14 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 15 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 16 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 17 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 18 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 19 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 20 | It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids . |