Example sentences of "took it [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had little chance ; the Revolutionary Guards at the airport , famished by Ramadan , took it away and ate it . |
| 2 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |
| 3 | Mr Goldin 's team started with a clean slate — but then Congress took it away and gave them one with lots already on it . |
| 4 | when she took it away and hid it . |
| 5 | He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful . |
| 6 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 7 | Eventually , when interest in running the tennis club waned , Harold took it over and ran it as his own business . |
| 8 | ‘ Seven years ago that building was all boarded up and wee took it over and transformed it . |
| 9 | The partnership was not a success , however , and within six months Milburn took it over and amalgamated with Nathan and Sommers . |
| 10 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 11 | Well of course you can guess the rest , I took it up and had it valued and then put in an auction . |
| 12 | Karen says that her mum used to compete as a swimmer , so she took it up and caught the bug . |
| 13 | He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park . |
| 14 | Jenna took it firmly and turned away . |
| 15 | I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl . |
| 16 | Frankenstein took it automatically and dismissed the man with a curt gesture . |
| 17 | One of the group took it lightly and suggested going by a slightly different route . |
| 18 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 19 | You see I put me poster up in the window and then me flipping dad said to me I do n't know whether you should have that poster up , what if Miss is around , Conservative , so I bloody took it down and put it in a magazine , I thought when we 've got |
| 20 | He took it down and kept it beside his bed . |
| 21 | Remembering what Gloria had said , Melissa took it down and sniffed it , hoping to detect some tell-tale trace of scent , but there was nothing . |
| 22 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 23 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 24 | So I took it home and stuck it under the door . |
| 25 | He had a Phillips G eleven , he took it home and plugged it in , it ran for two hours |
| 26 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 27 | So he put it in shed , left it in shed for a while and then it were not last year the year before , he took it down , I 'm putting this in dustbin duck he says it 's no damn good , we went on holiday and me daughter 's boyfriend came down while we were away and er , he must of been looking in dustbin he says what 's this telly doing , our Mandy said it 's no good , me dad 's slinging it out , so he took it home and fixed it , it 's been going ever since |
| 28 | She took it out and passed it across to him . |
| 29 | Sometimes he took it out and looked at it . |
| 30 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |