Took

//tʊk//

"Took" in a Sentence (14 examples)

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

You took the wrong key.

I took it for granted that you were on my side.

Your son took part in the student movement, I hear.

I took your umbrella by mistake.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

I took it for granted that you would come.

Who took care of the dog while you were away?

After all the trouble we went to in coming up with that project, it only took them a second to shoot it down in the meeting.

The neighbors took turns sitting up with him.

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When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.

A gracious perſon ; But yet I cannot loue him : / He might have tooke his anſwer long ago

"There you're right," said Bill, "especially as it was all in paper, and he might have took care of it so very easy, by folding it up into a small parcel."

Linda: It was being there — if you could have took the work home I would have been alright, but being there, people watching over you, you know, you couldn't do anything wrong.

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