Example sentences of "what i took to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 2 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 3 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 4 | He gave orders in what I took to be the local dialect . |
| 5 | In particular , whereas I had fairly strong evidence that one particular set of rules , the bureaucratic format as I called it , was standard in NHS consultations and common in the American consultations on which I had data , what I took to be a further distinct mode , the ‘ charity ’ format , was used by only one of the American doctors in the study . |
| 6 | I was glad to find the original material in what I took to be splendid condition , still clearly bearing the marks of the sculptor 's chisel . |
| 7 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 8 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 9 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 10 | At one point , Paul Fox the managing director of BBC TV threw forth into the welter of conversation what I took to be the following line : ‘ Well , what do we all think of yesterday 's historic meeting , eh ? |
| 11 | Almost immediately , the birds in the angsana responded by flying out in a flock , showing what I took to be anxiety by sinking to the ground and then rapidly rising again . |
| 12 | She looked at me with what I took to be concern . |
| 13 | I also found what I took to be a sporting pistol , with a beautifully engraved silver stock . |
| 14 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |