Example sentences of "[adv] took " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 2 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 3 | The Government of New South Wales apparently took this finding into consideration in deciding to abolish the immunity . |
| 4 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 5 | The point is , Nerina apparently took offence . ’ |
| 6 | The ‘ awfully sudden death ’ which had cast ‘ a great gloom ’ over the town of Bishop 's Castle apparently took place in the office of Thomas Griffiths , solicitor and Town Clerk of the borough since 1851 . |
| 7 | In a move which apparently took many leading Soviet politicians by surprise , President Mikhail Gorbachev held talks with Moda'i and Ne'eman on Sept. 14 . |
| 8 | US President Bush apparently took his decision to attend the summit only after having been urged repeatedly by the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency , William Reilly . |
| 9 | It was at the pivot of the secondary system — the process of selection — that innovation apparently took place . |
| 10 | Certainly it was she , rather than her husband , whom scholars praised for such discernment , and she who apparently took a personal interest in the literary side of her son 's education . |
| 11 | But Don apparently took his |
| 12 | According to Mr Reenan , he taped the call on January the 4th , 4 days after the conversation apparently took place . |
| 13 | According to Mr Reenan , he taped the call on January the 4th , 4 days after the conversation apparently took place . |
| 14 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 15 | But the first kiosk only took cards , and she did not have one and the next kiosk was broken . |
| 16 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 17 | This not only took the edge off the bitter taste , but also gave the drink a warm , attractive colour that looked ( even if nothing else about it was similar ) something like the superior imported French wines . |
| 18 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 19 | It only took a moment to make up his mind . |
| 20 | Second , and even more striking , it only took the experience of one minority ( strictly speaking , in the case of James I , the absence of the king as an English prisoner ) to produce the remarkable expedient of the Act of Revocation , which every king thereafter passed when he came of age . |
| 21 | Alice swore that he only took tea once , and certainly did not stay overnight . |
| 22 | Arithmetic not only took my mind off the leg , but also spurred me to keep up a pace of four miles an hour . |
| 23 | I only took the term up because it was general conversation in the police force . |
| 24 | Rosemary not only took 3rd place with this contribution but was sufficiently enthusiastic about the competition to send in a batch of other entries from the newsletters she has edited without even mentioning it to their writers . |
| 25 | I only took the King ! ’ |
| 26 | It only took this one slight pressure when he was least expecting it and he came loose . |
| 27 | Last weekend , however , after rioters looted and burned and smashed , and the army was compelled to escort Banda 's heir apparent , John Tembo , to safety , the Malawi News not only took the extraordinary step of giving a graphic account of the riots , complete with quarter-page photographs , but also accorded Chihana 's court case detailed front-page coverage . |
| 28 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 29 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 30 | It only took an instant , yet when you look back into their eyes you know that they know that you did it , and you know that they know that you know that they know ! |