Example sentences of "he took [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later . |
| 2 | After winning scholarships at Winchester and at Balliol College , Oxford , he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1924 and was elected to a fellowship of All Souls which he held till 1945 . |
| 3 | He took a second picture and pocketed the camera . |
| 4 | He took a third class in part i ( 1930 ) and a first class in physiology in part ii of the natural sciences tripos ( 1931 ) , and went on to do postgraduate research on nerve physiology and conditioned reflexes . |
| 5 | He took a last bite of cheese and biscuit and still looked hungry . |
| 6 | He took a last look at the green churchyard , turned up his collar and picked his way respectfully round the side of the church . |
| 7 | Before going down to the northern ramparts where the brunt of the attack was expected to fall , he took a last look round the room and saw Hari 's phrenology book lying on the floor . |
| 8 | He took a last look round the kitchen , caught up his flask and pack , carefully dislodged his rod from the top of the deal press and doubled out of the House . |
| 9 | He took a last look around the cab . |
| 10 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 11 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 12 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |
| 13 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 14 | He took the first job he could find , washing dishes at the Wang Garden , a Chinese restaurant two blocks down the street from the hotel . |
| 15 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 16 | He took the second bite . |
| 17 | He took the second torch out of his jacket pocket and tossed it to Jimmy . |
| 18 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 19 | Following this , he took the last piece of pork from his plate , chewed on it , then swallowed it before asking the next question . |