Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1355 Edward III appointed the Black Prince his Lieutenant in Aquitaine , and the prince took a small force there in the autumn of that year . |
| 2 | The fast disappearing figures of the two girls waved back then disappeared as the bike took a left hand bend . |
| 3 | The pastry took a terrible pounding at times , and Bessie kneaded the dough with a vengeance as she talked of Kate Kerrigan , one of her sworn enemies . |
| 4 | And this week the case took a dramatic twist with the high-seas arrest of Roderick , the dead couple 's 26-year-old son . |
| 5 | The clerk took a deep breath and hid his smile . |
| 6 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 7 | On Jan. 30 the violence took a new turn with a report of a direct confrontation between Albanians and Serbs in the village of Kosovska Vitina . |
| 8 | THE POUND took a new battering yesterday . |
| 9 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 10 | The horse took a side-track which led uphill . |
| 11 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |
| 12 | DESPERATE Chancellor Norman Lamont 's hopes that shoppers will spend their way out of the slump took a triple bashing yesterday . |
| 13 | The judge took a dim view of all this and told Howard , ‘ You are a man who drinks vast quantities every night . |
| 14 | Then the act took a new turn . |
| 15 | ‘ The lad took a savage beatin' . |
| 16 | He was a perfectionist , and the job took a long time . |
| 17 | In this scenario , the Diet took a subordinate role only until the socialist and communist parties accepted the system of liberal democracy and spent less time arguing for an alternative . |
| 18 | ‘ In 1991 the Group took a 49 per cent share in AOES in Abu Dhabi and began to transfer equipment and technology into this long established workshop in order to enter the value and wellhead market , predominantly in the UAE but also in other Gulf countries . |
| 19 | The Duke took a great deal of interest in matters culinary , and spent 15 minutes deep in conversation with Gareth , who has not yet revealed what was discussed . |
| 20 | One important objective of counselling was to improve communication within the family , which was achieved in the first session when the therapist took a supportive but firm approach and encouraged the patient to talk to her parents then . |
| 21 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 22 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 23 | The other took a gloomy view of the situation . |
| 24 | By contrast , when the palazzo was badly damaged in World War II , the rebuilding took a mere nine years . |
| 25 | Every now and then the launch took a larger wave on her starboard bow and she would shy away like a frightened colt . |
| 26 | However , the Commission took a practical view of the effect of such restrictions in assessing their compatibility with the competition rules . |
| 27 | Dame Jocelyn said she believed the corporation took a national perspective of what people wanted but admitted : ‘ A couple of times , yes , we have overstepped the mark . ’ |
| 28 | The affair took a sinister turn four months after the investigation began when a young American banker , due to appear in court on fraud charges connected with offshore banking transactions , died in mysterious circumstances . |
| 29 | The Chief Inspector put flame to his pipe once more and under cover of the smokescreen took a thin file out of the desk . |
| 30 | But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ? |