Example sentences of "as [pers pn] took a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was mentally on my toes as I took a floater into the city and then left it , mingling with all the pedestrians thronging the walkways . |
| 2 | As I took a pace or two to my right , starting to run towards that taint dull promise of escape , a vision distantly revealed itself . |
| 3 | But , I told myself as I took a service elevator up to the roof , I should not think in the past tense . |
| 4 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 5 | She could feel Jackie watching her as she took a step forward , but she resisted the temptation to glance back , thrusting herself away from him , one step after another , angrily trying to justify her uncharacteristic behaviour and telling herself that she had no need to justify it . |
| 6 | Reluctantly she got up and her teeth chattered as she took a dressing gown from a hook behind the bedroom door . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's fine , ’ she said , but as soon as she took a few practice steps forward , the edges of the bale , on either side of the binding rope . |
| 8 | Fiona shuddered , her voice almost a squeal as she took a series of sudden , deep in-rushing breaths , and buried her head in the hollow between Lachlan Watt 's shoulder and neck . |
| 9 | Bracken Cottage on a spring evening was a pleasant place , but celebrating alone was a contradiction in terms , she decided , as she took a sip of wine and looked without interest at the food on her plate . |
| 10 | He watched her as she took a small mouthful of the delicious moist sponge . |
| 11 | As she took a mouthful of her coffee , her hands were shaking . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's roast suckling pig , ’ Guido told her as she took a mouthful . |
| 13 | Almost exactly half an hour later , Rory was sitting cross-legged on Candy 's floor , grimacing as she took a sip of coffee . |
| 14 | No chance of persuading her father that Damian Flint was a rat and a snake , then , she thought as she took a taxi home . |
| 15 | John Coffin came in just as she took a sip . |
| 16 | ‘ I started the sport relatively late , but I 'm still improving , ’ he said as we took a breather at the end of a run through soft but stodgy powder ( he floated over it with extreme grace while I plunged head first into it like a deranged puppy ) . |
| 17 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 18 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 19 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
| 20 | The friends laughed and squealed with delight as they took a short boat trip to see the crocodiles and hippos that live on the lake . |
| 21 | ‘ How did you know he was waiting for us ? ’ asked Billie as they took a taxi into the centre of London . |
| 22 | Then I flinched as they took a threatening step towards me . |
| 23 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 24 | Mungo noticed Emily watching him as he took a pile of thick ham sandwiches and two enormous pickled onions . |
| 25 | For the first time he smiled as he took a cigar from his case , laid it on the desk . |
| 26 | The way I saw it , Neil Kinnock replied to the Budget with the look of a man who had got out to bat against Curtly Ambrose , only to discover , as he took a particularly nasty delivery in the meat-and-two-veg , that he had left his box in the pavilion . |
| 27 | The Open champion 's engine room is his ability to keep the ball in play , but Seve Ballesteros 's spluttered and died as he took a six-over-par TEN at the 10th hole . |
| 28 | TITLE HOLDER John Parrott fired the fastest century break so far — taking just five minutes and 15 seconds for a 103 clearance — as he took a 6–2 lead in his UK Championship quarter-final with Ireland 's Joe Swail . |
| 29 | JOHN MAJOR was dubbed ‘ the Eddie Eagle of politics ’ yesterday as he took a massive fall in the Commons . |
| 30 | Dale , 45 , who plays Jim Robinson in the Aussie soap , punched driver Damien De Pace in the face and stomach as he took a coachload of British tourists to watch filming in Ramsay Street . |