Example sentences of "took [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extensive education programme took everyone offsite on a two-day course , which was built around the Tom Peters philosophy . |
| 2 | Did my bit against Franco till the Italians took me prisoner . |
| 3 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |
| 4 | The story quickly took me captive . |
| 5 | Somewhere there 's a man who took me fishing |
| 6 | It took me time to find out what was wrong but eventually I sorted it out . |
| 7 | It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four . |
| 8 | Here , for example , is an extract from a memorandum to a US delegate to the Paris Peace Conference by Lawrence of Arabia , who had led the Arabs to victory while torturing himself with the secret knowledge of his part in their betrayal : ‘ On 1 October ( 1918 ) , the people of Beyrout , in emulation of the Damascenes , turned on their Turkish garrison of 700 men , and took them prisoner … |
| 9 | during the second World War , one German found three hundred , four hundred Russians took them prisoner |
| 10 | yeah , took them prisoner second single handed , I mean |
| 11 | I just took my napkin , filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot . |
| 12 | Rang the landlord the next morning , Saturday morning , and , apparently he has rang last night , and your wife Debbie took my drink away and away , I said that 's fair enough , so he said . |
| 13 | Her father , Robert Skidmore , says , ‘ There 's a lot of anger in the French Quarter , because felt that Seth had a death wish and took my daughter with him . |
| 14 | It took my daughter and me over an hour to drive him home , the ungrateful creature ! |
| 15 | I heard a grunt , a hum of air , a bloodstunning crack , then with oddly exact and flowing movements I sat up saying " Money " , took my wallet from its holster , fanned five twenties at the sweating black face , wedged shut the door , made the triple-ring sign , and drove sedately out of Rosalind Court . |
| 16 | Bunny straightened up and took my wallet out of his back pocket . |
| 17 | And I took my stick |
| 18 | ‘ He took my phone number and I met him again a couple of times . |
| 19 | They not only took the title away , but took my dream away . |
| 20 | I took my automatic out and rested its cold metal on Rhonda 's paper torso . |
| 21 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 22 | I took my make-up out of my bag , leaned close to the mirror and set to work on my face . |
| 23 | you know , but they 're not as good as those ones no those are superb , right okay I think I took my clipboard back with me did n't I ? |
| 24 | I stood and thought and made the panic recede until I could work out what to do , then I took my knife out of its sheath on my belt and carved an arrow in the bark of the tree I was facing . |
| 25 | So I took my knife and cut almost through the rope , then waited , listening to the sound of two loud voices coming from the cabin . |
| 26 | ‘ He took my knife , effendi . |
| 27 | He took my knife . ’ |
| 28 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 29 | So , then she said , oh right , I 'll get on your desk just to check that it 's alright , so she got , took my work essays off , and she got on my desk and then I said , oh I 'll help you down , so she sat on my desk to get off and of course it 's not attached |
| 30 | When I took my knitting to the window and sat working there , I thought of Mother . |