Example sentences of "and took the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 2 | I retreated to the men 's room and took the film out of the binoculars-camera , and wrote a short note to go with it . |
| 3 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 4 | I recently visited my relatives in Morecambe and took the opportunity to do some fell walking in the Lakes . |
| 5 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I wish he did have cause to be jealous of me , ’ I said , and took the opportunity to draw her towards me and fold my arms around her . |
| 7 | In May , just before VE Day , he travelled to Paris in order to lecture on " The Social Function of Poetry " and took the opportunity to bring small presents of soap , China tea , and other commodities to old friends there like Sylvia Beach . |
| 8 | I am on a , ’ her pause was not due to a transmission fault , ‘ fact-finding tour of the outlying regions , and took the opportunity to contact you directly . |
| 9 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 10 | Nelson Mandela was one of the guests of honour , and took the opportunity of meeting Shevardnadze as well as US Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 11 | Last year I visited Cape Town and took the opportunity to visit the Dam . |
| 12 | ‘ Yesterday you were a very Good Samaritan , ’ she smiled , and took the opportunity , while he seemed halfway friendly , to enquire , ‘ I do n't suppose it would be convenient for me to interview you now , Mr Gajdusek , would it ? ’ |
| 13 | Of the 17 other clerks of works , several were close to retirement age and took the opportunity to retire early ; others were given severance terms . |
| 14 | The 32-year-old delivery girl was left screaming in agony after the alsatian-collie cross snapped at her and took the top of her ring finger off during her round in Canterbury , Kent . |
| 15 | She wheeled the trolley into the kitchen , and took the plum tart out of the oven . |
| 16 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 17 | He ran back into the living-room and took the phone off the hook . |
| 18 | The man dried his hands and took the phone through to Boy , then walked back into the kitchen . |
| 19 | Ginny wiped her hand on David 's towel and took the phone from him . |
| 20 | Maxim answered it , then said : ‘ Speaking , ’ and mouthed to Agnes : ‘ It 's the Fun palace , ’ and took the phone into the hallway , out of hearing . |
| 21 | Instead of dictating the number , he said , ‘ Let me , ’ and took the phone out of her hand . |
| 22 | Finally she went and took the phone out of his hand . |
| 23 | Jaguar and Nissan , as if to celebrate the swansong of their turbocars , threw caution to the winds , and took the fight to Mercedes-Benz with devil-may-care enthusiasm . |
| 24 | Born in about 1819 , the son of a minor chieftain in the district of Kwara in western Abyssinia , this outstanding man started his career as an outlaw with a small but devoted following ; by 1854 he had subjugated Gondar and Gojjam and the following year , having defeated at Derasge in Simien his most formidable rival , the ruler of Tigre , he proclaimed himself Emperor and took the name of Theodore . |
| 25 | When he went down from Oxford he was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers , his godfather 's regiment , and took the name of Doughty-Wylie . |
| 26 | Karol Wojtyla , Archbishop of Cracow , Poland , was elected Pope in 1978 and took the name John Paul II . |
| 27 | Pope : Karol Wojtyla , Archbishop of Cracow , Poland , was elected Pope in 1978 , and took the name of John Paul II . |
| 28 | She agreed to continue working and took the therapist 's advice to contact a solicitor to deal with the legal aspects of the separation . |
| 29 | She reached up and took the stone out of his hand . |
| 30 | For some considerable time the stone provided a ceremonial seat for the inauguration of High Kings of Ireland until one of them , Fergus MacErc , became ruler of the new kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll , and took the stone with him to the fortress of Dunadd . |