(1) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
(2) The hype of thewhole week blew up in one overreaction from me.
(3) When a row about this blew up in March 2010 , just before the election, the prime minister claimed only to have been aware about it for less than month.
(4) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
(5) To keep the statistics rolling, last season's best-viewed match came in April when Chelsea blew the title race wide open by defeating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield – it was watched by more than 3 million people on Sky.
(6) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
(7) "When it blew up you could see the shock wave hit the wheat field, boom," he said.
(8) The row blew up after Luzhkov criticised the Kremlin last week, questioning Medvedev's decision to suspend a Moscow-St Petersburg road-building project.
(9) The Sounders tried to keep the deal secret, but fans with access to Twitter and cellphone cameras blew the lid off.
(10) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
(11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(12) Two factors aligned for the extreme low in the snow pack last year: winter temperatures too warm to allow formation of snow in the Sierras, especially at lower elevations, and a phenomenon known as the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge”, the high pressure atmospheric formation over the north Pacific that blew storm tracks off course, preventing rains from reaching California.
(13) Osborne also blew a £600m hole in Labour’s plans to fund its cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000, taking the money to fund his savings package.
(14) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(15) "At first I was taken aback by how quickly this thing blew up."
(16) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
(17) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
(18) Their average age was 23.5, with the oldest being Crawley father Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, who blew himself up driving a truck bomb during a prison break in February.
(19) A former undercover spy who blew the whistle on abuses of a covert Scotland Yard unit has offered to speak to an inquiry if police chiefs withdraw their threat to investigate him for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
(20) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
Took
Definition:
(imp.) of Take
() imp. of Take.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(3) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(4) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(5) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(6) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(7) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(8) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(9) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(10) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(11) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
(12) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(13) In 2 of these elevated intact PTH normalized within 24 h while in 1 no change took place.
(14) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(15) However, normalization of physical working ability in the group of women took place about one year later than in men.
(16) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
(17) These percentages suggest that a better fermentation took place in those silages containing forages.
(18) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(19) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
(20) Though no strict relationship could be observed between titers in the IH test and the time it took mice to die from the intravenous inoculation of mice (IIM test), results of the supernatants examined by both methods demonstrated that the IH test was more sensitive than the IIM one.