Example sentences of "who took a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots . |
| 2 | She knows what happened to her grandma and her mother Tiare , who took a beating and made Aleena take the same vow . |
| 3 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
| 4 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 5 | Hospital staff commended another canoeist who took a strap from his own craft to make a sling . |
| 6 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 7 | I have the files … thieves , one who took a knife to a postmaster 's throat , one who buggered a Pioneer intake class , one who caught his wife screwing the rent official and took off half her head with a hammer-he should work well . |
| 8 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 9 | For that end , for that end , you people over there , who took a decision to implement Local Management at the earliest possible time , regardless of the state of preparation of each particular school , regardless of the resources of staff and equipment and , if that was not enough , you also introduced a cut of thirteen million pounds in education funding . |
| 10 | But even though Lewis used him for target practice with heavy right crosses and upper-cuts , he could not floor the durable American , who took a standing eight count early in the fourth round . |
| 11 | Sunderland have minor injury worries about strikers Don Goodman and John Byrne , who finished with calf injuries against Ipswich , David Rush ( hamstring ) and Gordon Armstrong , who took a kick on the calf . |
| 12 | They are a very clever family the Pikes , they all hold medical qualifications , but Ralph Pike ( the younger one , who took a trip you know where ) has biochemical qualifications too . |
| 13 | He hopes that Beresford , who departed with hamstring trouble , Anderton , who took a blow on the ribs , and Awford , who injured a hip , are among those who will prove refreshed . |
| 14 | There was this lawyer bloke who took a notion |
| 15 | He ( and the others except Wallace who took a knock ) seemed to last the pace aswell . |
| 16 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 17 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |
| 18 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 19 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 20 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 21 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 22 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |
| 23 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 24 | Glenn Clements , a burly policeman who took a break from his job to be in charge of the Pinnochio group , says : ‘ I 've got four kids and I get far more pleasure taking these children on holiday than I do my own . ’ |
| 25 | Who took a spin at 100 mph and walked away in a daze ? |
| 26 | In the body of the text , it may also be revealed that the person is in some position which may give opportunities for taking advantage of children , such as a registered foster-parent , a holiday-camp entertainer , a landlord who placed ads offering single mothers a home at his seaside lodging-house , a coach-driver who took a party of thirty-four primary school children . |
| 27 | Mr Clinton talked tough to Mr Miyazawa last month about market access ; but it was Mr Bush who took a group of America 's most protectionist businessmen with him to Japan . |
| 28 | His tutor was Cambridge boss John Beck who took a gamble on the lad who was nearly booted out because he had no bottle . |