Sentence examples for took a pack from inspiring English sources

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He took a pack of cards and lodged a black card between the deck and the palm of his hand.

I was longing for a cigarette, and eventually I asked her, "Do you still smoke?" "My God, I'm dying for one," she said, and took a pack out of her purse.

Columbus believed that for fighting Indians one dog was worth fifty soldiers, so when he advanced into America he took a pack of two-hundred-and-fifty-pound mastiffs with him.

During the frequent cigarette breaks, the preferred brand was Marlboro, because if you took a pack and turned it upside down, the word "Marlboro," when inverted, approximated the Arabic script for the phrase "Horrible Jew".

As a boy he took a pack of badgers ("A wild thing is a badger," Newlove said) and taught them to come when called.

The gang member and another man went through the victim's pockets and took a pack of cigarettes before fleeing the scene.

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I was stopping at the depot on my way to meet Chris Eyer, who once took a packing class here.

Every day, from age five until my GCSEs, I took a packed lunch – ham or cheese sandwich and an apple – to Grittleton House school, which never had a kitchen.

Researchers at the Children's Food Trust found 54% of English primary school pupils and 60% of secondary students took a packed lunch in 2011-12 – a drop of only 2.2 percentage points on the previous year.

An uncle sent her money to pay traffickers and she took a packed, leaky boat to Sicily, then to France where they left her in the filth of the Calais jungle.

Clem takes a pack of gum, looks at it, and then puts it in his pocket.

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