Example sentences of "[noun prp] took [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 2 | Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs : bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks , and there was much blood , showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes , rather than taken as carrion by crows . |
| 3 | Edward took up a position at the door-post . |
| 4 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 5 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 6 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
| 7 | In 1840 we find in the title deeds when William Holding took over the tenancy of the farm that an oast was on the deeds ; after this date , between 1838–47 , the name was changed to Court Farm . |
| 8 | On Hird 's death 10 years later , Cutts took over the list , and demonstrated his own publishing flair with his first best-seller , A J Russell 's For Sinners Only . |
| 9 | Majella took up the fiddle , I got an accordion and Mary got a banjo . |
| 10 | The next morning , alone in the small sitting-room , Molly took out the Piero della Francesca book , as a scholar might take a work from the shelves to check a reference . |
| 11 | Kisanga took over the Water Development portfolio and Pius Ng'wandu , the Minister hitherto , became Trade and Industry Minister . |
| 12 | In further changes , Joao Cruz Pinto took over the Justice portfolio from Vasco Cabral who was appointed in March [ see p. 38085 ] ; the Defence portfolio , formerly held by Vieira , was assumed by Samba Lamine Mane , while Manuel dos Santos was named Minister of Natural Resources and Industry to replace Filinto de Barros who became Finance Minister . |
| 13 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 14 | Said that in future he 'd be obliged if I kept careful note of when Mr Meredith took out a horse . |
| 15 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |
| 16 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 17 | But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is |
| 18 | Roberta produced the storyline , Ken took on the programming . |
| 19 | The new LEAs took over the responsibility to provide adequate facilities for elementary education and in addition were authorised to provide ‘ education other than elementary ’ , either by setting up new secondary schools or by aiding existing ones in their area . |
| 20 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 21 | Chris Willsden took over the Bay Horse , Hurworth , near Darlington on Monday and hopes to set up a display of the pub 's heritage . |
| 22 | She did not leave as Corbett took up the pewter spoon and began to eat . |
| 23 | Deputy Premier Djamshed Karimov took on the role of acting Premier after the resignation of Prime Minister Akbar Mirzoyev on Aug. 30 . |
| 24 | They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent . |
| 25 | Fardine took out a tin can from a cupboard beside the coop . |
| 26 | It was there , in fact , that when Cliff Drysdale had to leave his place as chairman of the ATP 's seminar on power tennis to begin his day 's television commentary , that Arthur Ashe took over the role , with customary authority and enthusiasm . |
| 27 | In 1040 the Normans took over the area and its great cathedral churches date from the succeeding 100 years . |
| 28 | The following correspondence shows how much trouble the Wordworths took over the boy . |
| 29 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 30 | It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test . |