Example sentences of "but [pron] took [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 2 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 3 | He lingered on , drinking more heavily , occasionally interrupting proceedings with a bit of the old invective , but nobody took any notice . |
| 4 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 5 | ( Goibniu and Fiachra Broadcrown sniggered at this , but nobody took any notice . ) |
| 6 | Cleo cried out , but nobody took any notice of her . |
| 7 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 8 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 9 | She would have no trouble catching him on paper , but she took some photographs just to make sure . |
| 10 | But she took some coffee and began to drink . |
| 11 | You were asleep , so we did n't wake you ; but we took little Billy to see . |
| 12 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 13 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 14 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 15 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 16 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 17 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 18 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 19 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 20 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 21 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 22 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 23 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 24 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 25 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |