Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] had take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved back to Edinburgh too because er my er my family had taken a yearning for Edinburgh , they did n't like East Kilbride so I says left . |
| 2 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 3 | But her body had taken a battering . |
| 4 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 5 | Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister . |
| 6 | OK , her relationship with her father had taken a dip since her mother 's death , but she still knew the man better than almost anyone else on earth . |
| 7 | A wife whose husband had taken a girl out on a number of occasions would tell the counsellor , ‘ This time it 's different — they 've slept together . ’ |
| 8 | As a boy , he had been certain that he was adopted , or that his mother had taken a lover . |