Example sentences of "he [adv] took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Neath are backing the player 's insistence that he merely took a cold remedy . |
| 2 | He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment . |
| 3 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 4 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 5 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 6 | He also took a close interest in Liberal politics . |
| 7 | He was a member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and the East India mission , and a commissioner for the building of fifty new churches , and he also took a close interest in the relief and resettlement of continental Protestant refugees . |
| 8 | He also took a strong part in famine relief and the campaign to abolish the British opium trade to China . |
| 9 | He also took a small stone from the centre of the strange formation , and shortly after his return home , he attended a meeting with other dowsers and suggested that it might be interesting to dowse the crop circle samples . |
| 10 | He also took a nightly bath containing lavender , clary-sage or chamomile — sometimes a blend of all three essences . |
| 11 | He also took a few new recruits , notably three young lieutenants , Harry Poat , Tony Marsh and Johnny Wiseman , all three of whom went on to make their mark on the regiment . |
| 12 | The look Sir Thomas gave her was not a pleasant one , as he defiantly took a sizeable helping of goose . |
| 13 | He recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his time in Iraq . |