Example sentences of "that [noun] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) mentioned Derbyshire county council ; I remind the hon. Gentleman that Labour took Amber Valley in the local elections in May . |
| 2 | When the crisis did occur , however , the first reaction of the Conservative leadership was to ensure that Labour took full responsibility . |
| 3 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |
| 4 | There was a connection of sorts — Carolan was Stavanger 's son-in-law , but fathers are not responsible for the political views of the husbands of their daughters , and there was no evidence — apart from the election address in his desk — that Stavanger took much interest in the political life of the Carolans . |
| 5 | The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) . |
| 6 | It is very probable that Grey took some part in Leapor 's subscription . |
| 7 | This is the vehicle that Honda took three years to create . |
| 8 | The SPS will probably never be attempted but its theoretical viability is suggested by the fact that NASA took three years and spent $16 million on assessing the concept . |
| 9 | ‘ It is unusual that police took such action , but by law they are fully covered to do that . ’ |
| 10 | Dr. Lamont writes that " Islay has no relics of the Palaeolithic age , but traces of Mesolithic settlement , principally of " kitchen middens " of small mobile communities , which are found in the vicinity of the 25 foot raised beaches " which were formed before 2500 BC when the sea was roughly at its present level , and says " It was , however , in the New Stone Age ( 2700–1300 BC ) that men took effective possession , pasturing their domestic herds , practising a simple agriculture , and interring their noble dead in impressive chambered cairns . |
| 11 | Union is the compelling debut album , that Toni took three years to write and record . |
| 12 | In general , however , they found that consumers took better care of appliances on hire purchase and that servicing costs were lower . |