Example sentences of "took [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class . |
| 2 | He took the principal part in the synthesis and interpretation of all the gravity observations made in India over the period 1908–13 and made an excellent attempt to interpret these data in the light of evidence recently reported by the American geodesist , J. F. Hayford , as a result of similar surveys in the United States . |
| 3 | His budget of March 1987 took the standard rate of income tax down to 27p , and in all a huge budget surplus of over £16 billion was recorded . |
| 4 | It completed a marvellous weekend for Gillingham , who yesterday took the 100 metres in 1 min 2.16 secs0.18 inside the previous world best this year . |
| 5 | It completed a marvellous weekend for Gillingham , who yesterday took the 100 metres in 1 min 2.16 secs0.18 inside the previous world best this year . |
| 6 | Each year on the Sunday — the day before the fair started — the family took the late Sunday afternoon walk down Exeter Street , along St. Nicholas Road , over the fourteenth-century Harnham Bridge to The Swan Inn Field . |
| 7 | The bride , in a white wedding gown , and the groom , in a tuxedo , clung tightly to each other as they took the terrifying plunge . |
| 8 | Factors such as location , journey to work , allocation and management policies , cost and personal preference meant that different types of households were accommodated in different housing forms ; predictably the low-income groups took the poorest quality housing ( Pooley and Irish , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Later , I took the then editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Screeton , there . |
| 10 | He took the One inch to One mile Ordnance Survey sheet for the Andover area , noting that there were fifty-one churches on the map . |
| 11 | But if we took the highest price of everything then we 're making thousands and thousands and thousands . |
| 12 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 13 | It was not , admittedly , the most subtle of strategies , but you will appreciate that this particular task , though no doubt important in its way , hardly took the highest priority at that moment . |
| 14 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 15 | We would wish a second investigator to consider whether his predecessor took the right route , whether all the relevant leads were followed , whether sufficient attention was paid to evidence which was inconsistent with the working hypothesis , and whether the methods used ( particularly in interrogation ) did not distort the result . |
| 16 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 17 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 18 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 19 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 20 | He took the second bite . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ We made it , ’ he said and took the second gun from Mariana 's shoulders without really looking at her . |
| 26 | Edberg had nothing to offer as Becker took the second set triumphantly in just 27 minutes to a great roar from the delirious crowd . |
| 27 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 28 | He took the second torch out of his jacket pocket and tossed it to Jimmy . |
| 29 | The Sergeant came up from the rear to join Charles as they left the Carriageway and took the long asphalt path that leads diagonally away to Marble Arch . |
| 30 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |