Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun sg] took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soderstrom — who later in the concert jokingly apologised for her scratchiness — was obviously miserable , more miserable than she needed to be , about the quality of the sound she was making , and her misery took the form of distinguished concentration on pitch , so that there were many small uncharacteristic faults in her intonation . |
| 2 | His mother was ambitious for her boy , and her ambition took the form of constantly encouraging , rebuking and endlessly telling him how he could improve . |
| 3 | When she was seven her parents separated and her mother took the children to England . |
| 4 | They were the only company to contact us by phone , purely as a courtesy call , and their package took the longest in the post — four days . |
| 5 | His father died very shortly after the birth , and his mother took the family back to England , and then to France in 1826 . |
| 6 | Chuck Moxon and his partner took the suspect barn . |
| 7 | And then same the other end , and so it went right through that waggon , and your coupling took the strain for the next waggon and so on and so on until you 'd got the complete train fitted up . |