Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I took him this note , he cried , ‘ All my chemicals are pure , and you can tell your master so ! ’ , and he threw the note back at me . ’ |
| 2 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 3 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 4 | I took her some Loukoumi and chocolates , and she said , ‘ Now that is a sensible present . ’ |
| 5 | You 'll never know how nearly I took you that night . |
| 6 | How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches . |
| 7 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
| 8 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 9 | So if you took them that day you 'd be going while you were on duty ? |
| 10 | ‘ You took her some tobacco , did n't you ? ’ was her father 's return , surly greeting . |
| 11 | We took her some flowers and erm I eucalyptus leaves and she thought they were lovely . |
| 12 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 13 | That morning Dad told his favourite story again , the story of his drive along the coast with Kay , only this time he took it one stage further , down from the cliffs and into the house . |
| 14 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 15 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 16 | It took me all day . |
| 17 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 18 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 19 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 20 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 21 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 22 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 24 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 25 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 26 | it took me five times |
| 27 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 28 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 29 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 30 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |