Example sentences of "he took this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took this bloke in , he did n't have a job . |
| 2 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 3 | After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port . |
| 4 | He took this work seriously and developed into quite a muscular specimen . |
| 5 | that time he took this fridge and you kept asking him if he were selling it cos w it were empty were n't it , and he says no it 's a load of rubbish . |
| 6 | He took this news quietly . |
| 7 | He claims he took this picture of Mrs Hilali in Dahouk in Kurdistan last January when he says he saw her helping refugees . |
| 8 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |