Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottle of champagne took five attempts to break , the roses dropped , out of the two passing aircraft , missed the ceremony by 200 yards and the balloons drifted off downwind , unnoticed . |
| 2 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 3 | The dazzling display of blooms took 18 months hard work to create and cost Newtownabbey man Edward Cooke £500 . |
| 4 | The first batch of railcoaches took fleet numbers 200–224 , and a second was delivered in 1935 numbered 264–283 . |
| 5 | His Serene Highness Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar took one look at Rebecque 's orders , grunted his acceptance , and tossed the paper to his Brigade Major . |
| 6 | THE Bank of England took immediate advantage of surging demand for gilt-edged securities yesterday by raising £3 billion in an unprecedented exercise that started at 2.30 am . |
| 7 | The 86 foot long piece of equipment took five days to be transported from Teesside , requiring an abnormal load permit and police escorts from each of the seven counties , covering its route . |
| 8 | The ceremonies for the ordination of priests or the consecration of altars took seven days . |
| 9 | Kalle Strandman of Sweden took 3rd place in the Europa Cup series at Hayling Island |
| 10 | In many other places in the New Testament the Spirit who was active in the prophets is promised to the Christians to guide them , but always that guidance centres upon Jesus in whom the truth of God took personal form . |
| 11 | In 1986 , some authorities provided no canteen facilities at all ( e.g. Buckinghamshire ) , while in other authorities a substantial proportion of children took paid school meals ( e.g. Derbyshire , with 56% ) . |
| 12 | In the senior recurve section S Culverhouse of Deben took second place and J Lamb also of Deben took fourth place . |
| 13 | In the senior recurve section S Culverhouse of Deben took second place and J Lamb also of Deben took fourth place . |
| 14 | Michael Maguire of Craigavon took first prize in the black and white section . |
| 15 | The series gave Chapman and his players their first experience of air travel , a venture which in the early days of flying took some courage . |
| 16 | Complaints from parents took some time to appear . |
| 17 | The credit unions in Birkenhead took two years from the decision to start a union to opening the doors for business . |
| 18 | The project has been welcomed by DUP councillor John Parkes , who says it is ‘ high time ’ people in Belfast took more steps to combat this problem . |
| 19 | After a break during the Franco-Prussian war , in which he was actively involved , though not as a combatant , his thoughts on tragedy took final shape in 1871 . |
| 20 | Turin to Courmayeur took seven hours , with nothing to read but English newspapers full of jolly witty articles about how pathetic we are at coping with snow . |
| 21 | His incredible journey to safety took eight nights and seven days and beat the record of SAS founder-member Jack Sillito , who walked 150 miles in the Western Desert during the Second World War . |
| 22 | The journey from London to Bath took forty hours in 1720 but only half as long in 1770 . |
| 23 | The journey down the Spencer Gulf to Adelaide took four hours . |
| 24 | The 130-km journey from Belgrade to Kragujevac took three days on horseback and five by horse-drawn carriage , but in 1814 only Miloš , the metropolitan and the Turkish governor had such vehicles . |
| 25 | The ICC ruling limiting bouncers to one per over took full effect , with match referee Raman Subba Row and the chairman himself , Sir Colin Cowdrey , in situ to reside over any inconsistencies . |
| 26 | Solicitors on Teesside took similar action yesterday and it is believed it could spread to North Yorkshire and Bishop Auckland . |
| 27 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |
| 28 | Lang said : ‘ None of the media listening at Westminster took that view . |