Example sentences of "took [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took from the Edinburgh summit in December nineteen ninety two , when the current Prime Minister first announced the government 's intention to legislate on this issue , until the thirtieth of June nineteen ninety three before the European parliamentary elections bill had its first reading . |
| 2 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 3 | He contested the North Antrim constituency ( which took in the Bannside Stormont area ) and defeated Henry Clarke , the sitting MP , who was a liberal and a member of the O'Neill clan . |
| 4 | FlyPast had the honour of visiting the very busy 35 Squadron at D F Malan Airport ( Cape Town 's main airport ) and to fly with the general transport element on a formation training sortie that took in the Cape Town coast and the all-dominating vista of Table Mountain . |
| 5 | He recovered in time to join , as a colonel , the staff of 400 that A. J. Balfour ( later first Earl of Balfour ) took to the Paris peace conference , where he watched politicians disputing over Levantine problems . |
| 6 | Nearly 800 crew members with 74 craft took to the Wye at Hay on Saturday for the start of the longest raft race in the world . |
| 7 | When work for the proprietors on what was to become the famous Mason–Dixon line was complete late in 1766 , they began on the Royal Society 's behalf , at Dixon 's suggestion , to measure a degree of the meridian on the Delmarva peninsula in Maryland and to make gravity measurements with a clock sent out by the Society , the same one that Maskelyne had had in St Helena and Dixon took to the Cape in 1761 . |
| 8 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |