Example sentences of "he took [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot . |
| 2 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 3 | Slowly , he took off the jacket and folded it neatly into a rectangle which he placed on his knee . |
| 4 | He took off the headset and stared at me with rage . |
| 5 | He took off the headset , shaking his head . |
| 6 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 7 | Half an hour later he took off the dressing-gown and decided to go downstairs . |
| 8 | When he took off the covers next morning he was shocked to find it was not a ‘ small tub worth £100 or so ’ but a sophisticated sailing vessel . |
| 9 | Here he took off the pendulous wig , wiped his face on the yellowing lace handkerchief dripping out of the over-ornate and antique jacket and revealed himself as a young man . |
| 10 | He took off the lid and sniffed the contents , satisfied the liquid was drinkable . |
| 11 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 12 | He took off the hired robe and lay down naked on the bench . |
| 13 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 14 | Elbows on his knees , he took off the sunglasses and fixed the mocking grey gaze on her . |
| 15 | Realising the far greater financial potential of a life on the road , he took to the moor with resounding success . |
| 16 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 17 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 18 | First to the lens was BRETT ANDERSON , and with his unfeasibly long arms he took to the shape perfectly . |
| 19 | So , at the age of twenty-six , he took to the road . |
| 20 | As the music grew frenzied , he took to the floor . |
| 21 | He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best . |
| 22 | Mark is believed to have become the first blind presenter to host his own radio show when he took to the airwaves at BBC Radio Cleveland yesterday . |
| 23 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 24 | But the books which he took from the shelves in those stolen hours in the school library were history and biography and political science . |
| 25 | After the tea he suggested that they play cards , already shuffling the cards he took from the sill . |
| 26 | But less discreetly , when haggling over prices in the house he could lose his temper and shout ‘ Do n't think I am hard up ’ , as he took from the cupboard a quarter pewter pot full of sovereigns ’ to flash at his antagonist . |
| 27 | Basic to it is a distinction , which he took from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) , between ‘ natural science ’ and ‘ moral science ’ , which he rendered in German as Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft respectively . |
| 28 | Melissa stared at the two slabs of raw meat that he took from the refrigerator and felt her appetite vanish . |
| 29 | We are all ’ — he swung his hand comprehensively , to take in the audience , the studio staff , somehow implying he took in the watching millions too — ‘ we are all worried by what we have heard of your work . |
| 30 | He took in the headlines . |