Example sentences of "that [pers pn] took [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 2 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 3 | Certainly men at the central station boasted proudly of the fact that they took more prisoners per year than any other division in the whole force . |
| 4 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 5 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 6 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 7 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 8 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 9 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 10 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 11 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 12 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |