Example sentences of "i took [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took her Daily Mail . |
| 2 | I took her three times within the two hours spent in that passage . |
| 3 | I took her little hand and kissed her soft cheek . |
| 4 | I took her little finger in both my arms , and put it very politely to my lips . |
| 5 | Nor would I have taken that any more seriously than I took his actual words . |
| 6 | I took my early ones in black and white , but the later ones I took in colour and er I saw to one side of Orion what looked like the Plough . |
| 7 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I took my first holiday for seven years and went to Egypt . |
| 9 | I was just about to say something like " What 's the idea of all those tricks you play on me ? " when I took my first look at the dog and everything else fled from my mind . |
| 10 | I was deeply imbued with the historic and cultural spells of this monumental structure when I took my first walk round the cloisters of the inner courtyard , whose first-floor gallery , open to the sky , is beautifully panelled and wainscoted . |
| 11 | I took my first job in the City in 1936 , working for Kittel and Company at 5 Fenchurch Street . |
| 12 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 13 | I took my poor mouth to Martha McGilchrist , who exasperatedly drained it for me . |
| 14 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 15 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 16 | ‘ So I took my petty revenge . |
| 17 | On the Sunday of the recent Bank Holiday weekend , I took my young grandson to Alresford , in the hope that something would be running ! |
| 18 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 19 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 20 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 21 | ‘ But I took my English books with me . ’ |
| 22 | For example — I feel disgusted and ashamed — I took my little girl down to my mum 's and I swear to God I remember dressing her — it was winter — but when she got to my mum 's house I took her out of the buggy and all she had on was her nappy and her socks and a blanket wrapped round her . |
| 23 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |