Example sentences of "took [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 2 | He took the second bite . |
| 3 | Duffy won a black ball fight in the opener and took the second frame 62–40 before winning the next two easily with breaks of 35 and 57 in the third and 92 in the fourth . |
| 4 | A former inmate of the Bloom yard , Lady Somerleyton 's Beau Seigneur , took the second Maiden under an enterprising ride from Lucy Hollis , who kicked for home at the fourteenth . |
| 5 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 6 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 7 | ‘ We made it , ’ he said and took the second gun from Mariana 's shoulders without really looking at her . |
| 8 | Edberg had nothing to offer as Becker took the second set triumphantly in just 27 minutes to a great roar from the delirious crowd . |
| 9 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 10 | He took the second torch out of his jacket pocket and tossed it to Jimmy . |
| 11 | Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge . |
| 12 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |
| 13 | Bob took the first contact sheet from the developing fluid and hung it up . |
| 14 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 15 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 16 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 17 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 18 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 19 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 20 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 21 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 22 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 23 | Villa away … the premier league team took the first leg 2-1 at the Manor … |
| 24 | They took the first turning after the hotel and began to climb towards the Jenner Clinic . |
| 25 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 26 | Fedorov took the first blow on the arm . |
| 27 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 28 | He took the first job he could find , washing dishes at the Wang Garden , a Chinese restaurant two blocks down the street from the hotel . |
| 29 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 30 | In 1983 Dr Sven Kullander took the first steps by restricting the genus to South American species ; unfortunately until such time as further revisions are made this leaves the rest of the species in a sort of ‘ taxonomic limbo ’ . |