Example sentences of "that [pron] took [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair .
2 Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip .
3 You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing .
4 ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’
5 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies .
6 Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) .
7 Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department .
8 They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary .
9 The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust .
10 Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text .
11 It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later .
12 I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail .
13 Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court .
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