Example sentences of "[pers pn] took the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 2 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 3 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 4 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 5 | Feeling ridiculous , I took the next train straight back . |
| 6 | She took the first train home . |
| 7 | She took the first set 6-4 but a sideways stretch to make contact with an English passing shot had the Belfast girl in trouble . |
| 8 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 9 | A Miss , that 's right , she took the first class . |
| 10 | When she took the last fence it brought her right around the wood , opposite the point where the Master had asked them to fan out . |
| 11 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 12 | They took the first turning after the hotel and began to climb towards the Jenner Clinic . |
| 13 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 14 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 15 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |
| 16 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 17 | He took the first job he could find , washing dishes at the Wang Garden , a Chinese restaurant two blocks down the street from the hotel . |
| 18 | He took the second bite . |
| 19 | He took the second torch out of his jacket pocket and tossed it to Jimmy . |
| 20 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 21 | Following this , he took the last piece of pork from his plate , chewed on it , then swallowed it before asking the next question . |
| 22 | Even the great diversity of dialects did not allow linguistic grouping ; it took the nineteenth century to invent the demarcations that created separate languages corresponding to the nations which had by then been created . |
| 23 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 24 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |