Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] took [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub . |
| 2 | I was ashamed ; and thenceforward I took my turn with the rest — to my benefit . |
| 3 | So I took his arm and made him sit down again , and I said , I 'm going to tell you a fairy story . |
| 4 | So I took his hand and stroked it , saying , |
| 5 | So I took his egg and bacon , gave him the finney haddock and he never said a word . |
| 6 | So I took his advice and left . |
| 7 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So I took my brother who was younger than me , about four or five years see . |
| 10 | So I took my letter , sealed in an envelope , back to the newsagent . |
| 11 | So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time . |
| 12 | So I took my card and went in I thought well I 'll pay for this by , by cheque |
| 13 | So you took your work back then Ange ? |
| 14 | So they took our subs in |
| 15 | And so he took her arm and pulled her into the street again and , still holding her arm , he said , ‘ And what do you think I feel like when I do n't see you and knowing you 're away dancing with that John Bennett or that Sweetman fellow ? ’ |
| 16 | And so he took his shears and walked quietly away . |
| 17 | So he took his protege off to Europe , to Paris , Vienna , and finally to St Petersburg . |
| 18 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 19 | As the sale was some distance away he took his horse trailer ‘ just in case … ’ |
| 20 | Eventually she took my arm . |
| 21 | Usually I took my bicycle and went off in search of friends who , like me , were too full of energy to want to rest . |
| 22 | Probably he took her nothingness for the numbness of shock . |
| 23 | Jehana had thrown off her cloak , and now she took her hiranu and cut a wide swathe from her gown . |
| 24 | Unnoticed , a little apple-cheeked woman with white hair had come out of the Chapel , and now she took her husband 's arm . |
| 25 | She had not intended changing for the evening , country inns being the right setting for good tweed suits ; but now she took her time about dressing , and chose a very austere frock in a dark russet-orange shade that touched off the marmalade lights in her eyes . |
| 26 | Yet even now he took his time to stroke and caress her until she was drugged and dazed with longing . |
| 27 | Well you took your dad out did n't you ? |
| 28 | Well we took our turn and we waited to go in but once we got in we broke away from the crowd and when they all came out and went to lunch in the town we did n't . |
| 29 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 30 | Well we took your mother and we that time . |