Example sentences of "and [adv] took the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle won six of the 12 relay races and easily took the top club trophy with 220 points . |
| 2 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 3 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 4 | He won his first race at Wincanton in brilliant style and then took the top two-mile chase of the season — the Champion Chase at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival in 1971 — by twenty-five lengths . |
| 5 | Scholfield teamed up with Georgie 's Caper for the first time to win the Restricted ( Div 2 ) and then took the Open unchallenged on Confused Express . |
| 6 | In September 1 158 Henry travelled to Paris and then took the little girl back to Normandy with him . |
| 7 | At one gig in Cork they were so skint they could n't afford to buy beer , and instead took the crusty way out and raided the local mixture . |
| 8 | With a small sigh , Gina replaced her mug on the table and reluctantly took the offered handshake . |
| 9 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |