Example sentences of "and took [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few like Hughie Gallacher , the marvellous centre-forward for Newcastle and Scotland in the 1920s , could never adjust to the sudden loss of fame and took their own life . |
| 2 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 3 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |
| 4 | Edouard crossed to the bed , sat down beside her , and took her slender hand in his . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll hurry up , ’ she said instead and took her best dress from behind the flowered cotton curtain on the bendy wire that served as a wardrobe . |
| 6 | Tommaso released her other hand , and took her other nipple between finger and thumb . |
| 7 | He crossed over to Marnya and took her patient arm . |
| 8 | He creaked forward in his cane chair and took her restless hand between his narrow ones . |
| 9 | She stood up and took her empty plate into the galley . |
| 10 | She left him , having found out what she wanted to know , and took her own bus home , mulling over her good idea . |
| 11 | He looked back at her a moment , then reached down and took her left hand in his own , lifting it up to study it . |
| 12 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 13 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 14 | I changed into my tracksuit and took my civilian clothes downstairs to the Corporal . |
| 15 | Without any goodbyes he left his house and took his small car to the station . |
| 16 | He shaved , changed his doublet , put on his sword belt and took his heaviest cloak from its hook outside the buttery . |
| 17 | In 1967 , however , the study of black holes was revolutionized by Werner Israel , a Canadian scientist ( who was born in Berlin , brought up in South Africa , and took his doctoral degree in Ireland ) . |
| 18 | After a few seconds , Pam straightened up , seated herself on the chair beside the bed and took his right hand gently in her own . |
| 19 | Bound and gagged me and took his beastly photographs . |
| 20 | In 1843 he returned to England and took his little daughter back to Jamaica to join the rest of the family . |
| 21 | He could not face that prospect and took his own life by covering himself in petrol and setting himself alight . |
| 22 | His 28 goals were free tickets to every night-club in London and despite a quiet off-field life when he first moved to London , McAvennie finally succumbed to temptation and took his rightful place in the twilight zone . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me , Brother , when you ran away from your order as a novice and took your younger brother to the wars in France , were you happy ? ’ |