Example sentences of "[adv] took a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Certainly it was she , rather than her husband , whom scholars praised for such discernment , and she who apparently took a personal interest in the literary side of her son 's education . |
| 2 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 3 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 4 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 5 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 6 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 7 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 8 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 10 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 11 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 12 | But Neath are backing the player 's insistence that he merely took a cold remedy . |
| 13 | For the happy-go-lucky youngster from Surrey Hills , life quite literally took a dramatic turn when she was just 11 years old . |
| 14 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 15 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 16 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 17 | He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment . |
| 18 | Guy Loudmer 's much awaited sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings at Drouot on 23 November meanwhile took a dramatic turn when none of its eight Gericault oil paintings managed to sell . |
| 19 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 20 | And I already took a half day off flexi leave . |
| 21 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 22 | Baptized on 31 August 1673 , the younger Daniel Coxe emigrated to America at the age of twenty-eight and thereafter took a prominent role in the affairs of West New Jersey . |
| 23 | Although Stephen 's trips to the mills became less frequent as he appointed capable managers , the farms on the estate and the timber business still took a great deal of his life and Tamar found that time hung heavily . |
| 24 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 25 | From her reclining position , Mrs Keith still took a controlling interest in the household , but with only Jim in the house and two farmhands in the hut , Tina had become used to being in charge . |
| 26 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 27 | He frowned at this suspected future injustice , but the next moment he remembered the siege and the fact that there was every chance that he would not live to suffer the humiliations of old age , and his thoughts promptly took a different line : " After so many hardships , how sad to be deprived of the tranquil evening of one 's life ! " |
| 28 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 29 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 30 | One of Britain 's first professional women geologists and a noted pioneer among late nineteenth-century women educationists , Catherine Raisin always took a keen interest in all aspects of women 's advancement . |