Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dismantling and removal took six months and was carried out by three men . |
| 2 | The city 's funeral barons had turned out in an unprecedented expression of their admiration and their sympathy , and Creed took full advantage of the fact . |
| 3 | I remember when me and Marie took those pictures . |
| 4 | Slovenia and Hungary took similar action . |
| 5 | Reluctantly , he agreed , and Ernest and Ruth took one side while Alfred Carter and the youth took the other . |
| 6 | Alan 's parents were perfectly civilized about the marriage , and Alan took considerable satisfaction in the fact that he knew they were rather shocked . |
| 7 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 8 | She could n't afford a car yet , but on the day of the final trials for the Pony Club Championships , which were held at Rutshire Polo Ground , she and Ethel took two buses and walked a mile in pouring rain to lend Perdita support . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 10 | More commonly , Citrine and Self took infinite pains to secure voluntary acceptance of central guidance , and were successful . |
| 11 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 12 | And Jed took another look around and made a face that suggested mild indifference lying over mild disapproval . |
| 13 | The race formed a part of the Essex Walking League and Joggers took third place and 134 points to remain third overall behind Ilford and Southend . |
| 14 | Boswell and Johnson took this road to Cruden Bay , in order to fulfil an invitation put in train by a lady they had met at worship in Aberdeen on Sunday morning . |
| 15 | Ratagan and Luib took first watch , whilst the rest lay and listened to the wind , felt it tugging at the tarpaulin . |
| 16 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 17 | He laughed , and Belinda took some scissors from a kitchen drawer and ran lightly down the back stairs to find her flowers . |
| 18 | The turning point for Hunt came in the last race of the first half of the season when Lauda retired from the French Grand Prix with a rear mechanical fault and Hunt took full advantage by winning . |
| 19 | In the studio , in the early days of tape and LP , Karajan and Legge took immense care , not only over microphone placing and instrumental balance ( some of their old mono recordings sound positively stereophonic ) , but also over the general artistic ambience . |
| 20 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 21 | Lightning flared and flickered beyond the shattered windows and Rohmer took another step forwards , as if he wanted to join it . |
| 22 | There was , after all , a B&Q Cup tie in November in which Hamilton and Meadowbank took 14 penalty kicks in a sudden-death decider . |
| 23 | Local allies , it turned out , were often reluctant to accept guidance from the USSR ; some of them ( Egypt , Iraq , the Sudan and Ethiopia ) persecuted and even executed large numbers of their domestic communist party members , and others took different views on international issues ( Iraq , for instance , openly supported Somalia in the Ogaden war ) . |
| 24 | The chairman and deputy-chairman took two shares each , and the remaining directors one share each , and they were free to use these nominations as they saw fit , within certain broad guidelines established by parliament . |
| 25 | On the mid-August weekend , when the Olympic match took place , Hirst and Rhodes took seven wickets between them at Taunton as Yorkshire took a firm grip on their match with Somerset . |
| 26 | It made a pre-tax operating loss of £398m , and restructuring took another £218m for a total pre-tax loss of £616m , up from a loss last time of £124m ; turnover fell 6% to £3,751m ; domestic sales and exports were each off 6% at £1,606m and £2,145m . |
| 27 | Waugh and Orwell took opposite sides on Ethiopia and Spain ; but not on Hitler , for whom Waugh never showed a particle of sympathy , and his anti-Hitlerism was even to become something like a practical ideal for Orwell . |
| 28 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 29 | But Costakis took that risk . |