Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 2 | An applicant for a job with a finance company claimed he had taken a lengthy career break which turned out to be a prison term for robbery . |
| 3 | I knew she had taken a fine dose . |
| 4 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 5 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |