Example sentences of "it took [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One of London 's earliest planned suburbs , it began to be laid out in 1773 on the estate of Henry Penton , MP for Winchester , from whom it took its name . |
2 | It took its name from an individual named Nestorius , who , in 428 , was appointed Patriarch of Constantinople . |
3 | It took its name from the district in which it was located . |
4 | An alternative draft platform for the forthcoming congress , drawn up at the Democratic Platform 's founding conference in January and from which it took its name [ see p. 37235 ] , was criticized for not attempting to make " a constructive contribution to the formulation of party strategy " and for concealing designs to turn the CPSU into a " shapeless association with complete freedom for factions and groupings , i.e. practically to dismantle it " . |
5 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
6 | It took its products to the southern USA , where lightweight machinery ( in which it then specialised ) was particularly suitable because soil conditions were sandier and so easier to work . |
7 | It took its case to the public , the press and the House of Commons and it won . |
8 | THE NOVELISTIC story of The Rolling Stones and Altamont , a tale so glamorously awful it took its author 15 years to recover enough to write it . |
9 | It took her ages ! |
10 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
11 | Although it took her months to get over Cerdan 's death , Edith Piaf 's desire for other men finally conquered her grief and according to her sister , Momone , ‘ she went wild , she ate her heart out , she was jealous and possessive … she howled and she locked guys up ’ . |
12 | It took her breath away like a blow . |
13 | The chance came so unexpectedly it took her breath away . |
14 | The lovely reddish gold curls were so similar to the colour of James 's hair it took her breath away , yet she could see no other likeness . |
15 | The monstrous injustice of it took her breath away . |
16 | It was so quick , so unexpected , that it took her breath away . |
17 | It was the first time she 'd seen him smile and , though it obviously was n't intended to charm , it took her breath away and made her pulses quicken . |
18 | At least it took her mind off the far less confident emotions that she was feeling on her own account . |
19 | ‘ It took her time to adjust to the light when the blindfold was removed , so she saw nothing . ’ |
20 | They held each other tight , so tight that it took their breath away , zipped together into one being . |
21 | I was mentally calorie counting every time , it took me ages to get back to a sort of normal life . |
22 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
23 | I I had and it took me ages to get it all back in . |
24 | It took me ages before |
25 | It took me breath away so |
26 | Let us assume that in the split second that it took our sender to walk into the room and to recognise another person , a decision was made to smile . |
27 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
28 | Some of it was charmingly primitive , some of it so exotically painted it took your breath away . |
29 | ‘ Anyway , it took your mind off Gazzer for a bit , did n't it ? |
30 | But er i it took your time up when you know when you might have been enjoying yourself . |