Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 2 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 3 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 4 | ‘ Ye got to take a positive attitude . |
| 5 | She turned to take a reassuring glance at the gondola , but it was no longer there . |
| 6 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 7 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 8 | But after a term she decided to take a different route , bookshop experience , a degree in English , more bookshop experience , and some in wholesaling . |
| 9 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 10 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 11 | We continued to take a keen interest in protecting and improving the quality of Welsh rivers , lakes and coastal waters . |
| 12 | That gentile foster parents were liable to imbue youngsters with their own values , however hard they tried to take a neutral line , was undeniable , but the alternative , to turn away children because there were not enough Jewish homes for them to go to , was rejected out of hand by the RCM 's ruling council . |
| 13 | For example , David Walker and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield approached us because they wanted to take a new look at photosynthesis . |
| 14 | He seemed to take a pessimistic view of your complaint , whatever it was . |
| 15 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 16 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 17 | As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance . |
| 18 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 19 | He decided to take a salaried job in a posh West End gallery and within a year had landed the directorship of the Marlborough Gallery 's contemporary art venture , the New London Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 20 | It was not until 1881 that he decided to take a medical degree ; his work up to that time had been in the physiological laboratory under Brücke , where , for six years , he had studied the central nervous system . |
| 21 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 22 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 23 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 24 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 25 | He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee . |
| 26 | He continued to take a keen interest in anything connected with espionage , and in 1915 published German Spies in England . |
| 27 | He left to take a permanent job . |