Example sentences of "he took the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the advice of M Broussonet MD FRS , perpetual secretary of the Royal Society of Agriculture in Paris , he took the momentous step of obtaining six months ' leave of absence to visit England . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 8 | He took the two boys off to a Lyons Corner House in peckham Rye , invited them to Bedford Gardens to meet Colquhoun and MacBryde , showed them his paintings , played Marlene Dietrich and Billie Holiday records and in one remarkable evening left them firmly hooked on the Bohemian life , determined also to become artists . |
| 9 | And with dignity he took the two glasses over to the bar . |
| 10 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 11 | He took the One inch to One mile Ordnance Survey sheet for the Andover area , noting that there were fifty-one churches on the map . |
| 12 | The composer 's father , Leopold , unwittingly started the rot over two centuries ago when he took the six-year-old Mozart to market , as it were , on the celebrated tour of Europe 's courts and palaces . |
| 13 | At the end of the concert he took the four children back to Great Meadow . |
| 14 | On Monday morning Greg had no classes before eleven , so he took the early bus to Burnley and went straight to the Public Library . |
| 15 | He took the early train up to London . |
| 16 | He took the right-hand staircase . |
| 17 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 18 | He took the prompt book back from Zach and began his old job again . |
| 19 | And he took the front piece out of that magazine . |
| 20 | This time he did n't open the door for her , and she had difficulty keeping up as he took the front stairs two at a time . |
| 21 | From the centre he took the flat velour package of gems and held them out . |
| 22 | Above all , he took the future trade union leader seriously , answering his incessant questions , and calling him proudly the ‘ queerest bairn he had ever known . |
| 23 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 24 | On fine days , he took the long way round by Jubilee Wharf . |
| 25 | Jan Irving ( Wirral ) was another to win at Derby , where he took the long jump with 6.64 metres . |
| 26 | He took the largest key from his set and unlocked the door . |
| 27 | ‘ He took the only way out he thought was best . ’ |
| 28 | He took the tiny bones of the stillborn girl from where they had been buried in the ice . |
| 29 | He took the tiny piece of crumpled paper from his top pocket and unfolded it . |
| 30 | He took the second bite . |