Example sentences of "he took a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 2 | He took a folded document from his pocket and looked at it . |
| 3 | Charles E. Wilson , the newly appointed Secretary of Defence , graduated as an engineer but soon realised there were better things in life and he took a course in commerce and went into business and is now engaged in the most complicated of businesses — that of running a country . |
| 4 | ‘ He took a difficult decision last week to increase interest rates . |
| 5 | Sir Montague Levine , the coroner , said he took a very poor view of their attitude and would seek Foreign Office help to get more information . |
| 6 | He took a fortnight away for the funeral and to visit his father in hospital . |
| 7 | He took a look at this picture of a black bloke with this dick practically touching his knees and said , Glen , fancy an extra tutorial one day soon ? |
| 8 | A graduate of Birmingham University , where he took a BSc in coal-mining , he joined Manchester Collieries Ltd , in 1944 . |
| 9 | Then he took a pencil and paper and started to tot up all the monies he presently held against the expenses he had . |
| 10 | Both fell to peeler crab on a 1/0 hook to 15 lb line to give Roy a unique double — before Christmas he took a 4 lb 7 oz flounder from the Exe to set a new best for his club 's inner area record . |
| 11 | He took a wrist-rupturing key from a rack and shuffled around to our side of the desk . |
| 12 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 13 | He took a deep breath and opened the door . |
| 14 | Similarly , the pre-First World War diction now creates moments of unintentional comedy , as when the figure of Christ says to John , ‘ You must play fair , ’ or when John 's plunge into the pool of faith is described as ‘ he took a header ’ . |
| 15 | A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English . |
| 16 | After the river , he took a train as far as the Burmese would allow foreigners to go , about a hundred miles short of their guerrilla war , and after that there was a vintage plane over mountains to the real Burma Road ; the road whose legend occupies an odd corner of the memory , like Hannibal 's Alpine venture . |
| 17 | In his final year at Exeter , where he took a degree in economics and agriculture economics , he joined Bath just as the Avon club started to take off on its four-year domination of the John Player Cup . |
| 18 | He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later . |
| 19 | Eventually he took a hefty drop in income by abandoning the lucrative corridors of merchant bank Kleinwort Benson . |
| 20 | At Oxford he took a D.Phil. on Barth , to set alongside his Erlangen law doctorate . |
| 21 | At Oxford he took a D.Phil. on Barth , to set alongside his Erlangen law doctorate . |
| 22 | Anyway , he took a liking to David definitely , and from that point it was no longer a singer and a group , it had become a singer with a group , which is a different thing altogether . |
| 23 | He took a deep breath and headed down , the sergeant , two constables and Miss Williams in his wake . |
| 24 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 25 | No fewer than 19 of those 35 were taken without assistance from his team-mates , and on average he took a wicket every 35 balls . |
| 26 | He took a deep breath before he spoke as if to keep himself calm . |
| 27 | He took a few gulps , then passed it to Philip . |
| 28 | He took a gulp at the Scotch and gave a wry smile at the injustices of this world which caused him to be smitten with another one of those blinding attacks just when he was about to make it . |
| 29 | Yet , poorer as it made him , he took a certain pride in keeping his wife . |
| 30 | He took a ten shilling note from his trouser pocket and gave it to Gloria . |