Example sentences of "took [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 3 | Knowing that BRM 's 1.5-litre V8 engine had been superior to the Climax , Rudd took the existing proportions to create an engine twice as big and with two crankshafts . |
| 4 | Male orderlies took the post-morphia cases to tidy places in our little mortuary . |
| 5 | Ashley nodded , and , as she went off into the kitchen , Vitor took the little boy to collect his present . |
| 6 | TI also took the unusual decision to try a one-shot approach over a short timetable , rather than the more conventional series of increasing offers . |
| 7 | Bryan , 36 , took the difficult decision to go even though his wife Hilary gave birth to their second daughter Jennifer just three weeks ago . |
| 8 | I took the welcome opportunity to stand up . |
| 9 | In retrospect , it was ironic that a year after Syria was partitioned , another small ethnic group took the opposite path to protect its identity . |
| 10 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 11 | Marketplace , an advertising agency with blue-chip clients such as Sainsburys , took the brave decision to move south of the river and bought an Edwardian warehouse in Holyrood Street , hard up against the high-level railway lines leading into the station . |
| 12 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ a close friend said . |
| 13 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ said a close friend . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ a close friend said . |
| 15 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 16 | Mr Parry and his wife Wendy took the painful decision to switch off their son 's life support system . |
| 17 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 18 | Edward took no constructive pains to build support for his rule but was content to make it financially sound , in itself a notable achievement yet one secured at an exorbitant political cost . |
| 19 | The authorities took no immediate action to implement the arrest warrants , and Attorney General Carlos Gustavo Arrieta stated on May 22 that the Constitution and the law could not be used as " instruments to promote retaliations which neither society nor its institutions needed " . |
| 20 | At the beginning of October , as the German Bundesbank took no immediate steps to reduce interest rates , both the British and Italian currencies fell sharply against the deutschmark , but then recovered . |
| 21 | Because we think we have tamed industrialism we no longer fear it ; but in the age of laissez faire , when the power of the manufacturers seemed unbounded , it took a certain courage to think for oneself and run the risk of appearing ridiculous . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 23 | Halting outside the little store , she took a deep breath to give herself courage before pushing open the door , then grimaced as the bell gave an important little ping which alerted everyone inside to her presence . |
| 24 | Fortescue took a deep breath to control the fury raging within him . |
| 25 | She took a deep breath to steady herself . |
| 26 | Tamar took a deep breath to steady her nerves before she replied . |
| 27 | Alyssia took a deep breath to steady her nerves , and then said unsteadily , ‘ Nicole is more to you than just a friend , is n't she ? |
| 28 | Once again she took a deep breath to steady the anger churning within , and summoned up her steadiest voice . |
| 29 | I took a deep breath to steady my nerves . |
| 30 | She took a deep breath to stop the tears and opened her eyes . |