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Example sentences for: took

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In Madrid, an editorial in El Mundo Wednesday took Primakov to task for justifying Russia's opposition to the bombing of Serbia by citing the example of Basque separatism in Spain.
They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyrénées, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
The paper GRE and GMAT took five hours; nursing exams, two days.
Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
When they wouldn't pony up huge bucks for TV and film producer James L. Brooks after he brought them The Simpsons , Big , and The War of the Roses , he took still more money at Sony.