Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] took some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 2 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 3 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 4 | Cos I took some photographs of Sammy , he got a picture of Sammy in there , picture of Nat . |
| 5 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 6 | In another recent case , two-year-old James Austin , who had been left strapped into his baby seat by his mother , was driven away while she took some refuse to a rubbish dump some 50 yards from her parked car . |
| 7 | And one time in Austin it was really bad 'cos we took some acid before we played and I felt really small , like I could n't do anything , like wooahh ! , like vertigo . |
| 8 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 9 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 10 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 11 | Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy-hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment . |