Example sentences of "[pron] had take [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fürst Franz Thun-Hohenstein remembers : ‘ When the enormous picture arrived packed up , my sisters and I were curious to see and touch something which really came from Decin , from Bohemia , which had taken on a kind of dream-like quality for us ; Decin did live on for us , but was unattainable . |
| 2 | He had a lot of sympathy for the girl , she had taken on a lot and was doing it well . |
| 3 | They had to take out a loan to pay their last fuel bill . |
| 4 | My boss knew he had taken on a lesbian when I was appointed . |
| 5 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 6 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |