Example sentences of "[pron] had take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 4 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 5 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 6 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 7 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 8 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 9 | There was not a doubt in his mind as to where she had taken the fifth picture on the film . |
| 10 | In her agitation she had taken the longer route on to the Quay de Cologny . |
| 11 | Mr Clare was telling his son about the new d'Urberville family who had taken the ancient name and lived near Trantridge . |
| 12 | Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test |
| 13 | She compared the results of students who had taken the regular lecture course with those of students using the computer-based programme and found no statistical difference in the amount of learning . |
| 14 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 15 | Newry manager Terry Nicholson said : ‘ We would have been in the game with a better chance if we had taken the two chances that came our way early on . |
| 16 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 17 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 18 | They had taken the strictest measures to ensure that the Project remained not merely ‘ invisible ’ in terms of its security profile , but that , in the unlikely event of sabotage , there would be copies of everything . |
| 19 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 20 | What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong ! |
| 21 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 22 | It had decreed that many years ago , and if they had taken the appropriate rent rises in steps and phased them in , this sudden large rise , which is causing hardship , would not have happened . |
| 23 | It had taken the last half-hour to muster the courage to mention the subject yet again . |
| 24 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |
| 25 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 26 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 27 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
| 28 | But he had taken the great step . |
| 29 | And , just as if he too suspected her caller was Travis , he had taken the diabolical liberty of answering her door himself . |
| 30 | He was a big , shambling , shy man , more than a little soured by life , but he had taken the two boys under his wing and Preston had loved him . |