Example sentences of "[det] [noun] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 2 | This exercise took two days . |
| 3 | This work took two directions . |
| 4 | This query took some time to reach Cedric . |
| 5 | I had taken very little , but this screw took great pleasure in going through all my things and saying I could n't take most of it . |
| 6 | Is it any surprise that some people took that example and ran up horrendous debts ? |
| 7 | Some people took full advantage of this ; quite as many others did not . |
| 8 | This solidarity took different forms in the two different kinds of society , but in each case Durkheim saw punishment as playing an important role in the creation and maintenance of the solidarity which was a necessary condition for social order and the continued existence of society . |
| 9 | However , the significant fact was that this incident took five years to come to court . |
| 10 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 11 | While these were in progress , each body took unilateral action and in Norfolk the Board appointed John Hampden Jackson as its Article 11 university resident tutor in the summer of 1938 . |
| 12 | In spite of the promptings of self-interest these men took great risks and were illuminated by the concept of the romantic hero : failure meant death and entry into the liberal calendar of martyrs . |
| 13 | Burton by all accounts took several miles . |
| 14 | The All Blacks took two fullbacks on that tour , Mains and a young and flighty lad Kit Fawcett , whose enormous talent at rugby and cricket was never quite harnessed . |
| 15 | All adjudications took several months and none was successful . |
| 16 | Many people took this game of make-believe to fantastic lengths and went through the whole elaborate business of a preparation for escape without the slightest real intention of ever carrying it out . |
| 17 | Almost 60 percent more candidates took Foreign Languages for Industry and Commerce ( FLIC ) while demand for Foreign Languages at Work ( FLAW ) rose by close on 40 percent on last year . |
| 18 | ’ Beatrice 's own escapism took many forms : she wrote under different names , always as Alice Morning in her ‘ Impressions of Paris ’ but also as Robert West , Cynicus , Beatrice Tina , Robert A. Field , T.K.L. ’ Minnie Pinnikin and occasionally in her own name . |
| 19 | Both men took heavy blows and by withstanding the best of the American 's punches Mason at least emphasised that he has a strong enough chin . |