Example sentences of "[noun sg] he took a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After the war he took a job with the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Company . |
| 3 | He watched closely as she selected every garment , and at one point he took a dress from her , replacing it with another . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the tracking room he took a seat at the desk and listened while Clarac explained the system . |
| 8 | Next day he took a week 's holiday and went with Sam to Switzerland , because he thought he would enjoy the tobogganing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From the station he took a taxi straight to Blumenthalstrasse . |
| 11 | From the cashbox he took a bundle of notes , and tossed them for her to catch . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Every flight forward was an adventure , every stance he took a place from which to see new things . |
| 16 | From the airport he took a train into the city . |
| 17 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 18 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 19 | Fen did n't answer , but instead of continuing straight up to the house he took a fork in the drive which then wound its way around the perimeter of the grounds , inside the high boundary walls . |
| 20 | Former New Seekers singer Lyn Paul was linked with him briefly and , in a ‘ kiss- and tell ’ interview , said , ‘ I think every time he took a girl out he compared her with his former wife , Gabrielle , and none of them came up to scratch . ’ |
| 21 | When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano . |
| 22 | From the garage he took a felling axe with a three foot handle and shattered his parents ' skulls . |