Example sentences of "but took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Metropolitan Police took exception to cars with reversed stairs , these had the new Milnes ‘ Exhibition ’ staircases , which were almost half-turn in the normal spiral direction , but took a wide sweep and were almost as easy to climb as the reversed stairs . |
| 2 | Out in level-par ( 36 ) Higgins was then only one up , but took a firm grip on the match after her Downpatrick rival failed with a tantalising two-footer on the eleventh green . |
| 3 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
| 4 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's doing all right on his own , ’ said the innkeeper , but took a few steps backward . |
| 6 | Alison signalled her appreciation of this pun , but took a neo-McLuhanite line herself , arguing that since actuality was the essence of the medium , watching a classic novel on television was as odd as reading it in a newspaper . |