Example sentences of "actually took the " in BNC.

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1 A sports writer who might previously have written ‘ a live wire mid field man ’ ( one who shows much sports man ship , presumably ) actually took the trouble to put ‘ livewire midfieldman ’ .
2 What the report does n't say is whether any Bradford people actually took the dieticians ' message to heart .
3 ‘ Yes , I am , ’ replied the old gentleman , ‘ but I 'm not sure that this boy actually took the handkerchief .
4 But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office .
5 He never actually took the stuff or got his hands dirty in any way . ’
6 Well if they actually took the time to explain to you what went into those sausages , you probably would n't eat them at all , would you ?
7 It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out .
8 They actually took they actually took the front off so that the water would get hotter .
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