Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] took [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 2 | Meanwhile at least one offspring of the NPA flourishes — the ‘ English Through Activity ’ programme in Swaziland , where I found similar activity and enthusiasm in schools , talked to a committed supervisor who saw her role entirely as getting her materials — including issues of English Ladybird books — to rural schools as efficiently as possible and of encouraging ‘ active learning ’ , ( but of what and why she took little heed ) . |
| 3 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 4 | BELFAST karate girl Siobhan Brunton recently returned triumphant from a European karate competition in Prague where she took fifth place . |
| 5 | I can never understand why you took that part though . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why you took this job , free of charge . ’ |
| 7 | Pipe Major Tom Buchanan and the Boys and Girls of Monkstown Mossley School Band had a glorious day when they took second prize and Best Corps of Drums in the Novice Juvenile Band section . |
| 8 | After his retirement there was no place where he took more delight in an invitation to talk than in one of the Cambridge churches or one of the college chapels . |