Example sentences of "who [adv] took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by the time the invasion neared he was one of the inner-most group of five Ministers — with Eden , Lloyd , Macmillan and Head [ who had replaced Monckton as Minister of Defence ] ( plus Mountbatten , the Chief of Staff ) — who effectively took the decision to issue an ultimatum to Egypt and Israel . |
| 2 | His downfall came five years later and the new owners were the Denison family who eventually took the name of the village for their title . |
| 3 | It is very possible to sympathize in good part , if not entirely , with the psychologists and philosophers who were sceptical or uncertain of the worth of introspection as a source of knowledge , reluctant to attempt to deal with the unquantifiable , keen to be in accord with certain principles of scientific methodology , resistant to such free speculation as the Freudian kind , and who thus took the step of analysing ascriptions of consciousness into claims about no more than behaviour . |
| 4 | But it was an Anglophile American who best took the point . |
| 5 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 6 | It completed a marvellous weekend for Gillingham , who yesterday took the 100 metres in 1 min 2.16 secs0.18 inside the previous world best this year . |
| 7 | It completed a marvellous weekend for Gillingham , who yesterday took the 100 metres in 1 min 2.16 secs0.18 inside the previous world best this year . |
| 8 | Prosser emulated Laura Davies and Janet Soulsby who respectively took the Thailand and Singapore Opens when her six-under-par 210 left her six strokes clear of Helen Wadsworth , of Wales , and Sweden 's Maria Bertilskold . |
| 9 | Gall stock reached 1850gns for a ram lamb bought by J J McCambridge and Son , Co Antrim who also took the highest priced Gall shearling shimmer at 1000gns . |
| 10 | The best crossbreed was Max , belonging to Beryl Greenslade of Hindhead , who also took the best mover award . |
| 11 | Herr Winter tells us that it has been a family business ever since it was established by his grandfather , who also took the opportunity to purchase one of the three existing original Nipper paintings . |
| 12 | Garth the woodcutter , who also took the death carts round the streets , was drinking outside the tavern and joined in the noisy abuse . |
| 13 | Friday evening was an occasion for double celebration for Ms Brolls , who also took the prize for best individual speaker . |
| 14 | Although the right hon. Gentleman has said again — several times today — that he will pay MGN pensioners their guaranteed minimum pension , will he accept that it is a mere pittance , and that if Barlow Clowes group shareholders who knowingly took the risk of speculating offshore can be compensated by the Government , the pensioners in MGN and other pension funds are no less deserving ? |
| 15 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 16 | In December 1638 the Earl of Holland , as Chief Justice of the southern forests , was informed of persons who unlawfully took the game in Rockingham Forest with ‘ dogs , nets , crossbows , guns and other engines ’ . |
| 17 | With their pack showing a voracious appetite for running into and beyond the heart of the visitors ' defence , Moseley were able to set up positions from which Hardcastle , who invariably took the correct options throughout , and Harknett were both able to score . |