Example sentences of "took the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 2 | ‘ It took the best part of nine months to do it because some people were worried about its connotations with ‘ Empire ’ . |
| 3 | The Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders comedy , Absolutely Fabulous , took the Best Comedy award with Lumley taking Best Light Entertainment Performance for her role . |
| 4 | Jimmy Gillespie , from Richhill , took the best trout at the Straid this week with a nice rainbow of 7lb 12ozs . |
| 5 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |
| 6 | The best crossbreed was Max , belonging to Beryl Greenslade of Hindhead , who also took the best mover award . |
| 7 | Having done that , we listened to them over and over , took the best parts from each solo and I worked on composites from there . |
| 8 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 9 | Yep , the stunning Turrican 2 emulates its predecessor which took the Best Game award last year . |
| 10 | Ken Waterworth , Carrickfergus , took the best fish of the week at 9lb 12ozs using an Orange Sleech and floating line . |
| 11 | Noel ( Snr ) took the best fish , an 8lb 4ozs rainbow , and Noel ( Jnr ) topped the juniors with a trout of 3lb 4ozs . |
| 12 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 13 | The 1985 Committee of the National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration , for instance , took the best advice they could find from a wide variety of sources to produce the prophecies in Educational futurism 1985 , published in Berkeley , California , in 1971 . |
| 14 | George Reid from Kilwinning with 5th place was best Ayrshire finisher while Jackie Pearson at 10th took the best Local prize at 10th . |
| 15 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |