Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] took a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 2 | After marriage she took a break while her two children were small , returning later to a fresh specialisation as Research Fellow at St. Mark 's Hospital , London ( gastroenterological/ coloproctological diseases ) She has M.R.C.P. ( London ) 1950 and D.M. 1971 . |
| 3 | Soon after his return he took a lease of Colworth House , Sharnbrook in north Bedfordshire , from John Fiott-Lee , whose principal seat was at Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire . |
| 4 | At one point I took a bowl of water to her : her mouth was bleeding and a trail of saliva dangled from her lower lip . |
| 5 | As we left the site I took a photograph of a Roman bridge . |
| 6 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 7 | Once in her room she took a seat by the windows and , pushing her distress over Paul to the back of her mind , tore open the packet he 'd given her . |
| 8 | The study of the voice what we say and how we say it I then introduced you to if you like advanced body language and based on the work that Marion North did and rather than take an individual movement of the body we took a cluster and how many aspects where there to cluster I wonder there were three were n't there . |
| 9 | After the war he took a job with the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Company . |
| 10 | He watched closely as she selected every garment , and at one point he took a dress from her , replacing it with another . |
| 11 | On his arrival at eleven o'clock in the evening he took a room in a hotel , and walked around the streets , in the hope of meeting Tess . |
| 12 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 13 | From his saddlebag he took a length of rope that he knotted as a leash round Nosey 's neck , then he drew his rifle out of the saddle holster , cocked it , and went silently forward . |
| 14 | In the tracking room he took a seat at the desk and listened while Clarac explained the system . |
| 15 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 16 | I continue to be very depressed , and last night I took a kitchen knife to my bedroom and drew blood from my wrist . |
| 17 | That night I took a stroll around the expensive quarter . |
| 18 | When I was out with the children the other day she took a call from Tim Dunton . |
| 19 | Next day he took a week 's holiday and went with Sam to Switzerland , because he thought he would enjoy the tobogganing . |
| 20 | He is also said to have caught a huge carp there , and to commemorate this event he took a gold ring from his finger and wore it ever after as an earring . |
| 21 | From the station he took a taxi straight to Blumenthalstrasse . |
| 22 | From the cashbox he took a bundle of notes , and tossed them for her to catch . |
| 23 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 24 | After that she pushed the older woman from her mind while concentrating upon several small tasks , and at mid morning she took a break to follow the covered path leading towards the chalets . |
| 25 | Last month we took a look at the essential preparation that should proceed any purchase of an aquarium for any house . |
| 26 | Next morning they took a cab to Holborn . |
| 27 | No fewer than 19 of those 35 were taken without assistance from his team-mates , and on average he took a wicket every 35 balls . |
| 28 | either committed suicide he took a throw himself off beside the boat hoping he 'd never be found or he erm was murdered cos you know , people do n't like him oh Reg came up with a good one , he said we possibly he wanted to disappear you see |
| 29 | Every flight forward was an adventure , every stance he took a place from which to see new things . |
| 30 | From the main road I took a bicycle rickshaw along the banana and coconut fringed lanes . |