Example sentences of "took [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Meanwhile , the Dak took on a new role in 1948 , as the mount of 60 Squadron , being used for two years on a nationwide aerial survey . |
| 32 | Twenty-five years ago , the line built by George Stephenson in 1836 was saved from closure and took on a new lease of life as the North Yorkshire Moors Railway . |
| 33 | The fences were put in order , the fields were top-dressed with necessary fertilisers , and even Matt took on a new lease of life . |
| 34 | The shops took on a new lease of life , the street-sellers , with their lemonade and nougat , ostrich feathers , mummy-beads and scarabs , carnations and roses , and the street-artists , with their boa-constrictors and baboons , took new heart , and the city in general resumed its normal manic rhythm . |
| 35 | In Jerusalem , her ‘ crying and roaring ’ took on a new form . |
| 36 | Every object I looked at took on a new form and turned into ugly monsters . |
| 37 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 38 | Mambo Leo took on a new importance in the 1950s , when the Government hoped it would help stave off the march of nationalism . |
| 39 | FREE-market economics took on a new meaning last week as schools received an invitation to shop around for the cheapest General Certificate of Secondary Education exams . |
| 40 | With rain keeping both teams off the pitch for long periods , the ‘ corridor of uncertainty ’ took on a new meaning as Keith Fletcher commuted between the two teams ' dressing-rooms , unsure of where his priorities as coach lay . |
| 41 | Fund-raising took on a new meaning and a massive mail-out was undertaken to companies , councils , tourist boards , charitable trusts etc . |
| 42 | After the execution of Louis XVI , anti-royalist criticism took on a new meaning . |
| 43 | These forums had been held before the move was considered to provide lines of communication between management and staff but , the company notes , these meetings took on a new usefulness when the relocation was announced . |
| 44 | So her waking hours took on a new format . |
| 45 | In the distance the cries of rage took on a shrill note of terror . |
| 46 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 47 | His voice took on a thoughtful note . |
| 48 | Our conversation , previously animated , took on a dogged silence as we climbed up the final leg . |
| 49 | At the weekend , modern day Roundheads and Cavaliers from all over the country , saddled up to re-enact the skirmish and commerate the 350th anniversary of the war and at times the battle took on a definite air of reality although noone was seriously hurt . |
| 50 | The blue patch of sky had long since disappeared and as the light faded the snow took on a fluorescent glow . |
| 51 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 52 | How many of us can say that someone changed when they took on a certain job or changed when something happened at work . |
| 53 | His eyes took on a dreamy expression and by the time I had intoned " Archibald , Marshall , English , Mc Phail and Morton , " there was something near to a wistful smile on his lips . |
| 54 | In the flickering candlelight , the withered features took on a grotesque appearance . |
| 55 | Mortimer 's voice took on a purring note . |
| 56 | Both it and the Tories took on a joint gamble when the Sun talked up the ‘ independence in Europe ’ line . |
| 57 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
| 58 | His face took on a faint expression of sad remembrance . |
| 59 | Nicolo 's smile took on a faint edge . |
| 60 | These , er , workers ’ — his voice took on a faint sneer as he said the word — ‘ these workers suggest that most human behavior is learned , that we are controlled in our actions not by our inheritance but by what happens to us after birth . |