Example sentences of "and took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strain gauges were bonded to the shaft and took 200 readings per second . |
| 2 | Dexter detected a glimmer of pleasure , as if the man felt instinctive sympathy for Lancaster and took personal satisfaction in thwarting the police . |
| 3 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 4 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 5 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |
| 6 | On occasion , distinguished local people such as Lord Brooks were landlords , at other times the owners were quite remote and took little interest in their holdings . |
| 7 | Creatures that correctly recognized the implications of data gathered by their sense organs and took appropriate action would be more likely to survive and reproduce . |
| 8 | The offender approached the till , kicked down the security glass and took various documents from the safe . |
| 9 | The training programmes that were available were arranged by government departments and took various forms : basic courses over nine or ten evenings ; one-day conferences on government information regarding grants , subsidies , etc. ; conferences on plant protection and disease control , field studies and some practical courses . |
| 10 | In fact the classic novelists were well aware of the dangerous power of their art , and took various measures to prevent or warn against its abuse . |
| 11 | On 9 April , the British Third Army , under Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Allenby , attacked at Arras , while farther north the Canadian Corps stormed and took Vimy Ridge . |
| 12 | However , in spite of expert advice the new melon seedlings at Selborne did not flourish and so on 23 June 1750 , as his Kalendar recalls , Gilbert White called on Miller at Chelsea and took due note of the correct procedure . |
| 13 | ‘ Your hair , ’ she said , ‘ your hair , ’ and reached up and took sliding handfuls of it , and the kiss changed , became the kiss of before . |
| 14 | The jury retired on 11 February 1992 and took 16 hours to reach a verdict . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard Moscow head of representation Nick Rossiter says the contract is fully paid for and took 18 months to negotiate . |
| 16 | In all first-class cricket , he scored 19,034 runs at 26.65 including 21 centuries , and took 1894 wickets at 25.05 . |
| 17 | The former were patient , they set small goals they could meet , stuck to their personally-devised diet plans and took regular exercise . |
| 18 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 19 | At the finish it was Mike Edwards from Wigan who presented the major threat and took second place . |
| 20 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 21 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 22 | Each image was comprised of 128×128 pixels and took 128 msec to take . |
| 23 | This includes the comment under 1028 that Cnut drove Olaf from Norway and took that country , the entry on his return to England in 1029 , and that on Olaf 's death at the hands of his countrymen in 1030 . |
| 24 | There may be ten of us on Scotland Place on a Saturday night when the Morning Star got chucked out and the licensee was a feller called Pat McEwen ( he had a marine store dealer 's in Chaucer Street and took that pub ) . |
| 25 | In his maiden Test in 1972 , he top-scored in both innings and took five wickets , an all-round performance he was able to sustain for the whole of his Test career of 58 consecutive matches , scoring almost 3,600 runs with eight centuries and taking 141 wickets at 32 with fast-medium ( or , as in 1973–4 when he had an outstanding series , off-spin ) bowling . |
| 26 | Next day , Thomas , who had had a good tour so far , bowled poorly and paid the price ; Botham , by contrast , had had an awful tour , but now he bowled well and took five wickets as a result . |
| 27 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 28 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 29 | In a brief account of her life Collier describes her education at her parents ' hands : ‘ I was taught to read when very Young , and took great delight in it ; but my Mother dying , I lost my Education , Never being put to School . ’ |
| 30 | He has a large number of good qualities and very few bad ones ; George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie . |