Example sentences of "took [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 2 | By 1973 this measure was considered inadequate and the government took total control of the mining companies . |
| 3 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 4 | Similarly , in Leningrad the CPSU committee took sole control of the daily Leningradskaya Pravda and the weekly Leningradsky Rabochy , albeit handing over to the city soviet the daily Vecherny Leningrad . |
| 5 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 6 | But what white kids did when they took that form of music was to quote white literature which is head stuff , and nothing to do with what 's under your balls . |
| 7 | It took that length of time for The Times to reach Carewscourt from London , where it was posted every morning . |
| 8 | Did you get any money back when you took that box of crisps back that time ? |
| 9 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 10 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 11 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 12 | They took little notice of her , though ; the rough , bawdy crowd were more interested in the fortunes of their local football teams , Millwall and West Ham . |
| 13 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 14 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , Muscovites took little notice of the death among them of Uvarov , for in the atmosphere of late 1855 Granovskii and Shchepkin were dearer to their hearts than a former government minister . |
| 16 | The English took little note of the fantasy before about 1585 ; the favourite form was still the ‘ In nomine ’ . |
| 17 | The surveys described above , that showed large numbers of patients suffering from psychosomatic symptoms , took little account of the possibility of food intolerance . |
| 18 | First , Phillips took little account of the degree of trade union militancy in deriving his relationship : according to the cost-push theories outlined in section 6.3 , an increase in union militancy will raise the rate of wage inflation independently of the state of demand . |
| 19 | As a member of a monkish order , Gilbert took little account of parochial and diocesan systems . |
| 20 | If Gilbert Racy took little account of ecclesiastical structures , his attitude to secular ones was solipsistic . |
| 21 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 22 | Common sense said otherwise , but the unheeding kindness of the very poor took little account of that , Sally-Anne had found . |
| 23 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 24 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 25 | However , in spite of expert advice the new melon seedlings at Selborne did not flourish and so on 23 June 1750 , as his Kalendar recalls , Gilbert White called on Miller at Chelsea and took due note of the correct procedure . |
| 26 | The gentleman took due note of it in a single glance , decided that nothing was to be gained by ill temper , and , reassembling his smile , he turned it upon her full-force . |
| 27 | However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw . |
| 28 | After the retirement of Isaac Thompson in 1858 and the death of William Hewitson in 1863 the Kitson family took complete control of the firm , and later James Kitson junior and the third son , John Hawthorn , who managed the Airedale foundry from 1863 , became partners with their father . |
| 29 | Scott Anderson ( with some Christian Aid ) and J.L. Bruce of Standard Life , took complete charge of the stamps and records respectively . |
| 30 | Tolkien took different views of his own work 's religious content at different times . |