Example sentences of "he took [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 2 | So he took anyway er I 'm getting mixed up with me stories I think . |
| 3 | and then he took badly you know one night , she had place in uproar , cos choose whatever you do |
| 4 | He took part inthe naval landings in North Africa , helped plan further landings in Sicily , and towards the war 's end he became deputy secretary to the chief of combined operations . |
| 5 | Aged 76 , he took ill earlier this month . |
| 6 | Darkroom work for Cecil Beaton ( whom he also regularly photographed ) and for Peter Rose Pulham ( whose studio he took over in Berkeley Square when the latter went to Paris to become a painter ) provided Goodman with the visual stimulus that helped create his most imaginative work . |
| 7 | No prizes for guessing who Ian Chapman , the publisher sacked by Rupert Murdoch when he took over William Collins , was referring to yesterday when he launched his new company . |
| 8 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 9 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 10 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 11 | When he took over ICI Fibres it employed around twenty-seven thousand people in Europe . |
| 12 | He took over the firm with some very clear ambitions . |
| 13 | Warehouseman Lee Seary is secretly glad his six-year old son became tired while playing a pike — because he took over and landed a personal best 27 lb specimen . |
| 14 | In the 1950s and 60s he took over or formed a number of firms — Sun Resta Ltd , Multi Resta Ltd , Sleepy Valley Ltd etc , and one , Multi Spring Ltd in Mitcham Surrey , which according to its headed note paper are ‘ contractors to HM Government ’ . |
| 15 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 16 | He took over Denham from Korda in 1938 and by 1941 had acquired a controlling interest in Oscar Deutsch 's Odeon cinema chain and the Gaumont-British set-up — both its cinemas and its filmmaking companies . |
| 17 | Cohen , it seemed , was much more in touch with the mood of audiences than Forbes and , when the latter resigned on 25 March , 1971 , he took over EMI 's production programme . |
| 18 | He took over as regional party leader in July in place of the hardliner Mr Lev Solovyov , a junior member of the politburo who also failed to get elected . |
| 19 | He took over as regional party leader in July in place of the hardliner Mr Lev Solovyov , a junior member of the politburo who also failed to get elected . |
| 20 | Yesterday , even as he took over from Mr Krenz , he was speculating that he might soon lose his job if the East German parliament decided to replace the Council of State with an executive president . |
| 21 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 22 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 23 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 24 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 25 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |
| 26 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 27 | In 1987 he took over Ronald Reagan 's bickering AIDS commission after its previous chairman resigned in a huff . |
| 28 | At the orders of Moussa Traoré , who was a lieutenant when he took over Mali 's government in 1968 , soldiers fired on rioting crowds . |
| 29 | Under Mr Welch 's stewardship sales have increased from $26.8 billion in 1980 , the year before he took over , to $58.4 billion in 1990 , an annual growth rate of over 8% and a third better than inflation . |
| 30 | In Pakistan in 1983–4 he took over again when Willis had to return home sick and gained two creditable draws , after which he was officially appointed to lead England against the West Indies in 1984 , at the age of 27 . |