Example sentences of "and took [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strain gauges were bonded to the shaft and took 200 readings per second . |
| 2 | Dexter detected a glimmer of pleasure , as if the man felt instinctive sympathy for Lancaster and took personal satisfaction in thwarting the police . |
| 3 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 4 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 5 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |
| 6 | On occasion , distinguished local people such as Lord Brooks were landlords , at other times the owners were quite remote and took little interest in their holdings . |
| 7 | The offender approached the till , kicked down the security glass and took various documents from the safe . |
| 8 | However , in spite of expert advice the new melon seedlings at Selborne did not flourish and so on 23 June 1750 , as his Kalendar recalls , Gilbert White called on Miller at Chelsea and took due note of the correct procedure . |
| 9 | ‘ Your hair , ’ she said , ‘ your hair , ’ and reached up and took sliding handfuls of it , and the kiss changed , became the kiss of before . |
| 10 | In all first-class cricket , he scored 19,034 runs at 26.65 including 21 centuries , and took 1894 wickets at 25.05 . |
| 11 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 12 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 13 | Next day , Thomas , who had had a good tour so far , bowled poorly and paid the price ; Botham , by contrast , had had an awful tour , but now he bowled well and took five wickets as a result . |
| 14 | In a brief account of her life Collier describes her education at her parents ' hands : ‘ I was taught to read when very Young , and took great delight in it ; but my Mother dying , I lost my Education , Never being put to School . ’ |
| 15 | He has a large number of good qualities and very few bad ones ; George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie . |
| 16 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 17 | During his visit he was briefed on the work of the Association by the Financial Secratary Sam Churchman and Mrs Wyatt , and took great interest in the Welfare work that we do . |
| 18 | Only 100 or so family and close friends were at the graveside , visible from the garden of the family home , to hear the Rev Russell McLarty of St Paul 's Church , Provanmill , say that Arthur Thompson 's children wanted their father to be remembered as a kind and generous man who loved life and took great pleasure from his family and grandchildren . |
| 19 | I love being in France and I recently bought an old barn there and took great pleasure in rebuilding it and making a garden . |
| 20 | announced her resignation as Society Chairman as from the AGM and took great pleasure in introducing as next Society Chairman and as Vice-Chairman , she was sure they would make a good team and wished them every success in the future . |
| 21 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 22 | A THIEF walked into Kerridge 's service station , Butts Road , Alton last week and took two cans of petrol worth £5.89 . |
| 23 | She stiffened as Sam shut the door and took two steps towards her . |
| 24 | Geoffrey Ferguson hit a not out 71 out of their 174 for two total and took two wickets for 31 . |
| 25 | Rachel was undeniably wonderful with the baby ; and took such joy from having Maggie with her that it was impossible for even Phoebe to feel much guilt about the times when she was free . |
| 26 | The shaikh Abdulrahman bu Riziq represented the rejectionist horn : he lived in the desert where an Italian policeman had been murdered , and took sardonic comfort from the reminder . |
| 27 | A SHANKILL Road man who molested and took obscene photographs of children was jailed for five years today . |
| 28 | I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises . |
| 29 | He settled in Paris in style and took French citizenship in 1908 . |
| 30 | She went to Girton College , Cambridge , where she was awarded the Gamble gold medal and took second-class honours in the moral sciences tripos ( 1887 ) . |