Example sentences of "and [adv] took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 2 | Baptized on 31 August 1673 , the younger Daniel Coxe emigrated to America at the age of twenty-eight and thereafter took a prominent role in the affairs of West New Jersey . |
| 3 | From 1387 onwards he supervised the carpentry of Winchester College , though his home was in Upchurch in Kent when in 1390 , with his wife Joan , he bought large property in Kingston upon Thames , and also took a sixty-year lease of the Bishop 's Hall there from 18 October 1392 . |
| 4 | He used a variety of lures and even took a few fish on fish baits . |
| 5 | I was utterly depressed and silences fell in which she steadfastly looked away and then took a quick little bite of a glance . |