Example sentences of "and [pron] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accommodation was pretty rough-and-ready but the people were friendly and warm-hearted , and I took endless delight in exploring on foot the wild landscapes of lakes and forest , mountain waterfalls and paths as rich with alpine flowers as a medieval tapestry . |
| 2 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 3 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 4 | As we got round the corner , Jo and I took one look at each other and ran . |
| 5 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |
| 6 | The beast did n't appear to have seen me and I took several photographs . |
| 7 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And you took great pains to stress that you 've steered well clear of them , ’ he pointed out . |
| 9 | And who took that decision ? |
| 10 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 11 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 12 | She listened to me and she took copious notes , but it was as if her understanding was glazed over . |
| 13 | We were very close in the sense that I could ask him anything at any time , and we took great pleasure in each other 's company . ’ |
| 14 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |
| 15 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 16 | No Epigas screw-in cartridges are available other than in Grenoble , and we took enough meths for the Trangia . |
| 17 | There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it . |
| 18 | And we took those floors out cos they were recent and and we put these arch braces back in again using the pattern that . |
| 19 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 20 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 21 | ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’ |
| 22 | And they took another driver on and he does a lot of that , the runs there you see . |
| 23 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 24 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 25 | And he took two cartridges out of his pocket . |
| 26 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 27 | And then we started the rehearsal scene and Rock Hudson walks in and he took one look at me and says , ‘ Where are my glasses ? ’ |
| 28 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |
| 29 | Karajan saw his orchestra have major successes in this symphony under two guest conductors , Barbirolli and Bernstein , and he took good care to record it himself ( magnificently ) in 1982 , also at a Berlin Festival Week concert which was recorded ‘ live ’ , as was Bernstein 's . |
| 30 | In July 1978 , his ambitions on the educational front were well stoked up and he took six CSEs . |