Example sentences of "but took [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action .
2 As the Metropolitan Police took exception to cars with reversed stairs , these had the new Milnes ‘ Exhibition ’ staircases , which were almost half-turn in the normal spiral direction , but took a wide sweep and were almost as easy to climb as the reversed stairs .
3 Out in level-par ( 36 ) Higgins was then only one up , but took a firm grip on the match after her Downpatrick rival failed with a tantalising two-footer on the eleventh green .
4 Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue .
5 There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs .
6 ‘ He 's doing all right on his own , ’ said the innkeeper , but took a few steps backward .
7 Alison signalled her appreciation of this pun , but took a neo-McLuhanite line herself , arguing that since actuality was the essence of the medium , watching a classic novel on television was as odd as reading it in a newspaper .
8 Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey .
9 Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness …
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