Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 2 | Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse . |
| 3 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 4 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 5 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 6 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 7 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 8 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 9 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 10 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
| 11 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 12 | If she had taken a tougher line with them at once , they would have known where to stop . |
| 13 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 14 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 15 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 16 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 17 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 18 | Joshua , seven , landed the pike following a five minute fight after it had taken a dead dace to 15 lb line . |
| 19 | ‘ Sit down , ’ said Stone , after he had taken a large mouthful of the whisky . |