Example sentences of "who [adv] took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are , most believable and shocking of all , stories of ordinary people , neither good nor bad , or both good and bad : Ilka , who joined the brothel in Maidanek rather than starve ; the Gartners of Linz , who claimed to know nothing though their son was in the SS ; Anton the dove fancier himself , a brutal kapo who nonetheless took pity on Gotfryd , and helped him to survive . |
| 2 | After early bumping at the first bend , Clydal found himself in arrears and Pilot Error made the early running from Stormhill , who quickly took control down the far side and looked set to win . |
| 3 | She insisted on a cab to the conference centre where the dance was being held , and when they arrived escape came in the figure of a party agent , who quickly took Hyacinth to one side , and asked whether she would like to start the dancing . |
| 4 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 5 | The smallest of the four coalition parties ( the others being the National Coalition Party ( KK ) , the Social Democratic Party ( SSDP ) and the Swedish People 's Party ( SFP ) ) , the SMP , which currently held nine of the 200 seats in parliament , had had only one minister in the Cabinet — Raimo Vistbacka , the Communications Minister , who was replaced by Ilkka Kanerva , who also took responsibility for transport . |
| 6 | Another winner is Jean Kent , CCG 's manager at Express Newspapers plc , who also took £250 for a sales lead which resulted in a catering contract at London Docklands Corporation at Thames Quay , for over 300 staff . |
| 7 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 8 | But there were probably a great many more who simply took advantage of too many of the free pints they were offered too often and slipped into alcoholism . |
| 9 | None of the patients who regularly took aspirin and other NSAIDs experienced gall stone recurrence , compared with 20 recurrences in the 63 patients who did not ( p<0.02 Fisher 's exact test ) . |
| 10 | In addition , there was also a very high turnover of voters from one election to the next , with the result that the " casual voters " normally outnumbered those who regularly took part in the poll . |
| 11 | THE American government has seized assets of a Chilean arms dealer who allegedly took part in a complex $1 billion ( £575m ) fraud that brought defence group Ferranti to the brink of collapse . |
| 12 | Then 54 of the older pupils who recently took part in a five-day visit to Ironbridge , Shropshire , described all that they had learned , with readings , slides and models . |
| 13 | 2 Johnny Dawes was the young British climber who recently took part in an expedition to Bhagirathi. 3 vauDe use Sympatex in the manufacture of the majority of their outdoor clothing . |