Example sentences of "took [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battalions , Northumberland Fusiliers and the actions in which it took part during the 1914–18 War . |
| 2 | Keith and Tim took part at the Central Pool in Reading . |
| 3 | Spain and Portugal took part for the first time , having signed accession protocols on Nov. 14 , 1988 ( see pp. 36105-06 ; 36429 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On May 10 tens of thousands took part in a pro-democracy march called by the RCD and the Socialist Vanguard Party , while on May 17 the FLN itself organised a march , which it described as " complementary and not in opposition " to the other pre-election demonstrations . |
| 7 | THE American government has seized assets of a Chilean arms dealer who allegedly took part in a complex $1 billion ( £575m ) fraud that brought defence group Ferranti to the brink of collapse . |
| 8 | Some 250 Kuwaiti soldiers and air force pilots and some 104 United Kingdom marines took part in a joint exercise on May 2-13 , in accordance with the defence pact signed between the two countries in February 1992 [ see p. 38790 ] . |
| 9 | She became Britain 's first woman in space in 1991 , when she took part in a joint soviet , British space flight . |
| 10 | The USSR , equally , took part in a widening network of international conventions and associations , from the Universal Postal Union ( in 1924 ) to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1955 and to a series of conventions on copyright , hostage-taking , narcotics , patents and arms control in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 11 | ALTON Young Farmers took part in a three-way quiz with Binsted Growmore and the Alton National Farmers ' Union at St. Mary 's Hall , Alton last week . |
| 12 | Other Scout and Guide movements were established at Leicester , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Liverpool , Coventry and in Glasgow which produced the first deaf Senior Scout in George Scott who took part in a Grand Rally of Senior Scouts at Ibrox Park which was inspected by the Duke of Windsor in 1931 . |
| 13 | Staff in Reference Services continued to benefit from Wednesday morning training sessions , and took part in a two-day Customer Care training course during the Annual Closed Week . |
| 14 | To help get the message across , pupils took part in a simulated accident , acting out the roles of those involved , including the ‘ casualty ’ and the police . |
| 15 | At least a hundred thousand people took part in a peaceful rally on the streets of Kwangju , marking the army 's suppression of the nineteen eighty uprising . |
| 16 | EGGS galore rolled across the playground at Camelsdale School last week when the children took part in a traditional Easter egg-rolling . |
| 17 | In September , over 60 young people from across the deanery took part in a ten-pin bowling evening in Warrington . |
| 18 | — More than 200,000 ecstatic Leeds United fans took part in a carnival-style street party yesterday as their team paraded the League Championship trophy . |
| 19 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 20 | The intrepid four took part in a gruelling sponsored 50-mile bicycle ride . |
| 21 | Some 60 per cent of Conservative MPs who took part in a recent Gallup survey thought standards would fall , not improve , if these changes took place . |
| 22 | Then 54 of the older pupils who recently took part in a five-day visit to Ironbridge , Shropshire , described all that they had learned , with readings , slides and models . |
| 23 | Group employees took part in a two-day-career convention for schools and colleges at Northwood Stadium . |
| 24 | Two CWMBRAN staff took part in a 24 hour sponsored famine which helped raise a total of £324 . |
| 25 | They were briefed extensively by experts about different aspects of the subject , and then took part in a three-day debate organized by the government-funded Foundation for Public Information on Science , Technology and the Humanities . |
| 26 | THREE high school pupils proved they were no mugs when they took part in a shared business project with Wedgwood staff . |
| 27 | Back in nineteen eighty eight the government faced a massive crash cash crisis in N H S funding , and er many people within the trade union movement took part in a massive rally in London to call on the government to review its policy towards the , the Health Service . |
| 28 | Each research worker took part in a different sphere … |
| 29 | No. 11 Commando became involved in fighting the Vichy French in Syria , while No. 8 Commando took part in a few unsuccessful raids along the North African coast , transported into action by the Navy . |
| 30 | In Middlesex , the number of schools playing rugby has increased by almost 200 per cent since October and at Dorking last weekend , more than 1,000 boys and girls took part in a mini-rugby event . |