Example sentences of "took [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When the press photographers took pictures the following morning their pictures of chaos were somehow symbolic of the chaos which was growing worse in Romania . |
2 | On 20th March there took place the first Founder 's Day Service at St. Mary 's Church . |
3 | The consequences to any patient-nurse relationship once a nurse allowed that could be as disastrous , if more excusable , as when bullying took place the other way round . |
4 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
5 | This took place the following February , and the Labour Party , at first called the Labour Representation Committee , was formed . |
6 | Christie 's adopted a different tack , dropped its mid-season sale of Impressionist art and used contemporary art as the leader for a sale of modern British paintings and sculpture which took place the following morning ( see p. 24 ) . |
7 | However , a further rebel attack , in which several people were killed , took place the following day at Tonka in the Tombouctou region . |
8 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
9 | Those discussions took place the same day in G-5 Section at AFHQ , reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer Gen Robertson , on the subject of " Disposal of Displaced Persons etc in N Italy and Austria " [ KP 222 ] . |
10 | A lot took place the next day , Tuesday , 21 March . |
11 | We had timed our arrival well as the local Highland Games took place the next day . |
12 | Evidence from Portugal shows that the killing took place the next day on the 3rd of July . |
13 | Took prize the Amazonian belt , |
14 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
15 | On May 24 the protesters took hostage the French consul-general and 10 oil company employees , apparently in an attempt to obtain French support for their demands . |
16 | Since Reagan took office the two most important working groups ( numbers I and IIIA ) have each had three successive US co-chairman . |
17 | Nevertheless the Northern Ireland Executive was sworn in on 31 December 1973 and took office the following day . |
18 | Israel 's Defence Minister , Moshe Arens , arrived in Washington on July 20 for talks with US Defence Secretary Richard Cheney , in the highest-level contact between the two countries since Shamir 's new coalition government took office the previous month [ see pp. 37546-47 ] . |
19 | MacDonald took office the same afternoon . |
20 | It took White the best part of this season to repair the psychological damage , but are we to believe him when he claims that he will win the World Championship unless he gets ‘ a terrible illness or someone plays like God ’ ? |