Example sentences of "took [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( I ) rarely took notes during the thousands of informal conversational interviews . |
| 2 | Battalions , Northumberland Fusiliers and the actions in which it took part during the 1914–18 War . |
| 3 | Keith and Tim took part at the Central Pool in Reading . |
| 4 | Spain and Portugal took part for the first time , having signed accession protocols on Nov. 14 , 1988 ( see pp. 36105-06 ; 36429 ) . |
| 5 | Among other multilateral contacts , Albanian delegations took part for the first time in a range of regional meetings , including a conference of Mediterranean chambers of commerce in April and one on Mediterranean water sources in May . |
| 6 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 7 | Seven years ago Norman decided their exploits needed to be remembered and started compiling a record of all former cadets who took part in the Anglo-American training operation . |
| 8 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 9 | Two police forces and an airline took part in the 350-mile dash to make sure newlyweds Mark and Jan Hemmingway jetted off for a fortnight in the Seychelles . |
| 10 | His division , having seen a great deal of dogged fighting on and around Ruweisat before the Alamein offensive , had been lightly engaged in the great action itself , though of course , their guns took part in the famous opening barrage . |
| 11 | He was also one of those who formed the force that took part in the famous Dr. Jamieson 's Raid that led to the outbreak of the Boer War , and after the war , was a farmer in Rhodesia for ten years before returning to Scotland , where he died in 1951 . |
| 12 | Oskar Rabin took part in the famous ‘ Bulldozer Exhibition ’ in Moscow in 1974 , when the authorities used bulldozers to break up a street exhibition by modern artists . |
| 13 | In 1915 she took part in the famous women 's international peace conference in The Hague . |
| 14 | He had recovered sufficiently by the spring to return to sea as flag-captain in the Resolution under Generals Richard Deane and George Monck [ qq.v. ] , and took part in the major actions off the Gabbard in June and the Texel in July . |
| 15 | An ecumenical jury took part in the international Berlin Film Festival for the first time in February this year . |
| 16 | About 200 guests , including representatives from the contractor firms , took part in the outdoor Mass and barbecue — called ‘ mamona ’ in Casanare — held near the construction site on the Alto del Aceite Mesa . |
| 17 | Chris Williams and Alan Warren from our advertising department raised £350 for the Great Ormond Street children 's hospital when they took part in the Round London marathon in March 1990 . |
| 18 | Her first foray into short-handed sailing was in 1982 when she took part in the Round Britain Race . |
| 19 | Undeterred , she completed the 1988 Ostar in Quixote ( 4th in class ) and in 1989 took part in the Round Britain Race again with Mike Pocock 's daughter , Jenny . |
| 20 | Early in 1656 he was appointed rear-admiral of the fleet being sent against Spain under Generals Robert Blake [ q.v. ] and Edward Mountagu ( later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) , and took part in the long blockade of Cadiz . |
| 21 | SOME 180 children from eleven schools took part in the annual large primary schools ' netball rally at Eggar 's School , Alton on Saturday . |
| 22 | MEG took part in the annual pilgrimage by erecting a marquee at the foot of the mountain where they displayed an exhibition of contrasting photographs of Mayo now and the aftermath of mining in Avoca and elsewhere in Ireland . |
| 23 | But Philo says that many Gentiles — that is , I presume , sympathizers — took part in the annual festival on the island of Pharos to celebrate the translation of the LXX ( Vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 24 | She took part in the annual Great River Race on the Thames , crewing a rowing skiff with sister Nicola Mardall and brothers William and Christopher Garnett . |
| 25 | Twenty golfers took part in the annual event and plans are being laid for a Fine Earthenware matchplay knockout competition next year . |
| 26 | Two of them took part in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 27 | Jockeying for position , these racing pigs took part in the first-ever Porky Grand National |
| 28 | He travelled abroad incessantly , making at least two major foreign visits a year : in 1989 , for instance , he carried out official visits to Britain , France , Finland and West Germany , visited Cuba , East Germany and China , took part in the first-ever summit between the Soviet Union and Ireland during a stop-over at Shannon airport , and still found time to meet the new US President George Bush in December after a state visit to Italy and a first-ever meeting with the Pope . |
| 29 | He also took part in the final ceremony of initiation into manhood which ends with a mass hugging . |
| 30 | PROBABLY the most surprising name in the entire Birthday Honours List is an MBE for Harold Larwood , the bowler who took part in the controversial 1932–33 ‘ Bodyline ’ Ashes series against Australia . |