Example sentences of "took a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt . |
| 2 | I invited him into the house and there , in the bright light , I took a closer look at him . |
| 3 | Although the survey forms took a closer look at unauthorised absence and aimed to collect data on pupils seen unequivocally as truants , it was plain that condoned absence was a major problem for headteachers . |
| 4 | I took a closer look at our visitor . |
| 5 | When he took a closer look he was horrified . |
| 6 | I took a closer look and discovered it was blood running from his head . |
| 7 | From the masthead Tilda , having sailed out to sea with Grace , took a closer survey of the Reach . |
| 8 | Once again , the government took a stricter view . |
| 9 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 10 | Murphy , Mackenzie and Roberts took a tighter hold on midfield and wingers McMahon and Reeve , the younger , came more into the game , but the ball would not quite run for Sharman at centre-forward . |
| 11 | This time the Smiths took a greater part in designing an intervention and deciding what they were to do . |
| 12 | As disc records took a greater hold of the market , some cylinder companies turned to discs ; but many of them eschewed paper labels . |
| 13 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 14 | He took a greater interest in the phenomenon of bureaucracy than previous Marxists and wrote extensively about the ‘ betrayal ’ of the Revolution by self-seeking bureaucrats who had destroyed the proletarian and revolutionary nature of the Bolshevik Party . |
| 15 | The Pringle/Nick Faldo collection of clothing took a higher share of the U.K. market . |
| 16 | Prince von Bülow during his tenure of the imperial chancellorship in 1900 – 09 took a higher view than any of his predecessors of the importance of the press and gave frequent newspaper interviews , while the German government , and William II himself , reacted strongly to the hostile attitude of the Times and its Berlin correspondent , George Saunders . |
| 17 | ‘ I say , ’ the Times reader stood up and dithered while Kelly took a firmer hold of Broom-Parker 's bristling moustache . |
| 18 | I took a firmer grip , squeezed tightly and immediately a cloven foot shot out like a whip lash and smacked me solidly on the knee . |
| 19 | The hat took a further turn in Frere 's hands . |
| 20 | Suspicious that the bluish tinge was a little too faint , and the whiff of avgas only slight , he took a further sample . |
| 21 | The Government 's stance took a further knock yesterday when the Conservative Bow Group published a survey showing senior British industrialists were not as vehemently opposed to the Charter as ministers . |
| 22 | After lengthy debates in each national parliament , ratification took a further year to complete . |
| 23 | The process of designing the Act took nearly two years ; Butler took a further year to steer it through Parliament . |
| 24 | I took a further risk . |
| 25 | In December 1987 this adjustment process took a further week and the final outcome is as recorded in Table 3.5 . |
| 26 | The money-lender gave her £20 and took a further charge on her furniture — Bill of Sale no 1 . |
| 27 | Around the same time , Parliament took a further step towards excluding the dead from the inner cities by taking power to close churchyards . |
| 28 | TOP took a further step forward at Hunterston last month with the formulation for each manager of his own personal action plan for the programme . |
| 29 | After a meeting in Damascus on Nov. 9 between Farouq al-Shar'a , the Syrian Foreign Minister , and Farouk Qaddumi , his equivalent in the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , Syria and the PLO took a further step towards the normalization of their relations . |
| 30 | The privatization of the state-owned economy took a further step on Feb. 17 with the start of the preliminary or " zero " round , under which investors were allowed to start placing their vouchers in any of the 437 officially sanctioned investment funds [ for details of privatization programme see pp. 38584-85 ; 38734 ] . |