Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the beginning of the first set , Toni feeling the desire to communicate with the audience , commenced with the question , ’ How many of you took Ecstasy last year ? ’ |
| 2 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 3 | Conservative borough councillors planned to sell the run-down site as a shopping development but Labour scrapped the plan when they took power last May . |
| 4 | The flamboyant Littlewoods millionaire was n't everyone 's choice when he took control last year . |
| 5 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 6 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |
| 7 | Although a phenomenal critical and box-office success , it took Stone ten years to raise the finance , eventually obtaining it through the British Hemdale company . |
| 8 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 9 | It took AI several months to compile details of the killings , but prisoners released in March 1991 provided information and themselves bore scars from torture . |