Example sentences of "and [pron] took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accommodation was pretty rough-and-ready but the people were friendly and warm-hearted , and I took endless delight in exploring on foot the wild landscapes of lakes and forest , mountain waterfalls and paths as rich with alpine flowers as a medieval tapestry . |
| 2 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 3 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 4 | Their erm conditions were very basic , and I took two fluffy hot water bottles which were going to be used as incubators for the premature babies , that 's all they had , and I took out lots of needles and the surgical gloves and a special instrument for operations . |
| 5 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 6 | and I took early and late turns with him |
| 7 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |
| 8 | As we got round the corner , Jo and I took one look at each other and ran . |
| 9 | And I took that straight to the barracks , and they accepted it ! |
| 10 | And I took that little book up to the union and showed it to the branch secretary and still I never got my bike or any compensation for it . |
| 11 | The beast did n't appear to have seen me and I took several photographs . |
| 12 | In the last few days , our conversation ran out ; we were often silent in each other 's company , and I took this to be a good sign . |
| 13 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 14 | Next door was the ‘ Louis XVI Bedroom ’ , in which the bed and curtain fabric was also inspired by an eighteenth-century Lyons silk and which took many of its period details from an 1801 mezzotint . |
| 15 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And you took great pains to stress that you 've steered well clear of them , ’ he pointed out . |
| 17 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 18 | And who took that decision ? |
| 19 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 20 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 21 | The question made her flinch , and she took another quick sip of whisky . |
| 22 | She listened to me and she took copious notes , but it was as if her understanding was glazed over . |
| 23 | We were very close in the sense that I could ask him anything at any time , and we took great pleasure in each other 's company . ’ |
| 24 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |
| 25 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 26 | at the time and we took that with us , which was an old fashioned , a really old Victorian suite which we got rid of when we moved into this house . |
| 27 | That 's what , oh no we were on a boat and we took that , but it was a similar boat to what we went on . |
| 28 | Oh yeah well we had a blanket on an'all and we took that off |
| 29 | Well in the other house we had , we had like an airing cupboard here and we took that out and had a shower where the airing cupboard was and we would of had |
| 30 | No Epigas screw-in cartridges are available other than in Grenoble , and we took enough meths for the Trangia . |