Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do n't think I had even taken any A levels when I left school . ’ |
| 2 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 3 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 4 | I had just taken another look at Debonair — at Vron , my future stepmother . |
| 5 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 6 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 7 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 8 | She had not taken any precautions , nothing had been further from her mind . |
| 9 | She had already taken one A level in law and had another to take in history as well . |
| 10 | Her back was excruciating and she had also taken three paracetamol . |
| 11 | Already the whole class had begun to warm towards Miss Honey , although as yet she had hardly taken any notice of any of them except Matilda . |
| 12 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 13 | This would affect the estimated 26,000,000 Russians in other Soviet and former Soviet republics by extending rights to those who had not taken local citizenship . |
| 14 | On Nov. 6 preliminary results showed that 87 per cent of those eligible had acquired citizenship , but 370,000 people who had not taken Lithuanian citizenship effectively became stateless or foreign citizens ; dual citizenship had not been permitted . |
| 15 | Comparing the 8-hour with the 5.5-hour sleep regimes for the six subjects who had normally taken 8 hours sleep . |
| 16 | Her father had been a tight-lipped rather unloving man who had apparently taken little interest in Doreen . |
| 17 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 18 | If we had n't taken that cash out , that is , if borrowings had been £150m more than they actually were , we probably would n't have got those covenant changes and the whole group could have gone under . ’ |
| 19 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 20 | But above all , the Conservatives were impaled on the difficulties of saying why , since they had run the country for 13 years , they had not taken certain actions sooner . |
| 21 | But she told me she would have been perfectly content if they had not taken this course . |
| 22 | The journey took only two nights and a day ; previously it had always taken three days , since the train stopped for the night at Dire Dawa and the Awash Station . |
| 23 | At first Johnson denied it , in the sincere belief that he had not taken illegal substances , but when the doctor asked if he had taken Reactivin , Johnson endearingly replied in his strong Fife accent ‘ Aye , but they 're no drugs . ’ |
| 24 | Although he worked in accounts , he had not taken any examinations towards becoming a certified accountant . |
| 25 | Umpire Peter Wright upheld batsman Cook 's objection that if Akram was fit to bowl ( he had just taken five wickets ) then he should be able to field . |
| 26 | The implication must be that Eadberht denied that he had previously taken holy orders and affirmed the legitimacy of his claim , but Archbishop Aethelheard fled and Christ Church , Canterbury , was probably sacked . |
| 27 | He had already taken two aspirins about half an hour before and now he took four more . |
| 28 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 29 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |