Example sentences of "[pron] took [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
2 | I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’ |
3 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
4 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
5 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
6 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
7 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
8 | I got on well , and at the age of seven , I took up the violin . |
9 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
10 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
11 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
12 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |
13 | I took up the axe . |
14 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
15 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
16 | I took on the management for Scullion and it was not an enjoyable experience . |
17 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |
18 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
19 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
20 | I was n't much more than your age when I took on the farm myself . |
21 | He wanted someone to help him with his horses , so I took on the job . |
22 | well ask him cos I I she gave me the pho , the photographs I took on the , on that Friday night . |
23 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
24 | I took over the poling . |
25 | Ever since I took over the tips section in the hallowed pages of ZZAP ! 64 , folks have whinged that most of the pokes are for Reset and Action Replay carts . |
26 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
27 | Id' er er g got married in er twenty five and er agreed to buy a house in twenty six , January , moved into it and er So er I took over the t horse and dray and er opened the front room as a a shop , a greengrocers shop . |
28 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
29 | I took over the family . |
30 | And then I was with him for five years till nineteen The same week , nineteen thirty , I took over the business from him in Valley . |