Example sentences of "[num] [Wh adv] [pron] took " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart made her international breakthrough in 1985 when she took the European junior 200 metres silver medal behind Kerstin Behrendt , who was named earlier this week as one of the athletes involved in a state-run drug-administering programme in what was East Germany . |
| 2 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 3 | The story of Karen and her brown envelope began in 1972 when she took a new job at a nuclear factory in Oklahoma . |
| 4 | Allison turned Book into a League star at the age of 30 when he took him from non-League Bath City to Plymouth Argyle . |
| 5 | In 1991 when he took office , Mr Weld froze a $35 million bond issue earmarked for the project by his Democratic predecessor Michael Dukakis who , before entering the Presidential race , had doled out $1.75 million for a rosy feasibility study . |
| 6 | Knighton , Derbyshire-born and a professional for a year with Coventry City , was a teacher until 1984 when he took up property dealing . |
| 7 | The world 750 cc champion in 1978 , Cecetto burst onto the bike scene as a 19-year old in 1975 when he took the 350 cc crown . |
| 8 | Occasionally , a Law Lord may introduce a Bill , as did Lord Templeman in 1987–8 when he took the Land Registration Bill through the House of Lords on behalf of the Law Commission . |
| 9 | On the Manx Nortons , and managed by the late Joe Craig , who came from Gracehill outside Ballymena , Geoff won his first North West race in 1950 when he took the 350 race at 82.54mph . |
| 10 | One lord justice of appeal appointed in 1984 , Sir David Croom-Johnson , was seventy when he took up his post , the age at which mere mortals are deemed too doddery to be trusted on jury service . |
| 11 | Philip was 58 when he took the scheme on . |
| 12 | He began fantasising and had to take avoiding action 81 when he took a corner too wide . |
| 13 | But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber . |
| 14 | But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber . |
| 15 | Mr Berry built up Blue Arrow from the small staff recruitment and travel operation he acquired in June 1982 into the world 's largest employment services group in September 1987 when it took over US company Manpower . |
| 16 | He embarked on a new career in 1864 when he took a lease of mineral property between Ton Pentre and Treorchy in the upper Rhondda valley , not hitherto a coal-producing area . |
| 17 | Her first foray into short-handed sailing was in 1982 when she took part in the Round Britain Race . |
| 18 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 19 | Mr Mark Rees , of Tunbridge Wells , Kent , made news in 1986 when he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 20 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 21 | He took 155 wickets for England at an average of 26.16 , his best series being during the MCC tour of Australia in 1924–5 when he took 38 wickets , at that time a record for England versus Australia . |
| 22 | There is very little evidence for Elena 's scientific activity in the ten years after 1955 when she took up her ‘ studies ’ before becoming director of the Institute . |
| 23 | After years of trying the 26-year-old Blackburn former world champion scored his first win in the North West 200 when he took the superbike race before 60,000 excited fans over the Portstewart-Coleraine-Portrush circuit today . |