Example sentences of "took it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 2 | Flustered , she handed him her case and he took it with a strong hand , his face hard . |
| 3 | ‘ Here , take my seat , ’ she offered , and the young woman took it with a grateful smile . |
| 4 | Mait took it with a wry expression . |
| 5 | He took it with a courteous ‘ Thank you very much ’ . |
| 6 | Then he took it with a brief word of thanks . |
| 7 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 8 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 9 | He took it as a personal insult . |
| 10 | He took it as a personal reproach . |
| 11 | Foolishly , I took it as a good sign . |
| 12 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 13 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 14 | But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world . |
| 15 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 16 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 17 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 18 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 19 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 20 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 21 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 22 | It was so easy to flatter her , she took it like a sixteen year old wino 's never heard it before . |
| 23 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 24 | Before getting in , Melissa put out a hand and he took it in a firm clasp . |
| 25 | It did n't , we took it in the front room |
| 26 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |