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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Mr Clare was telling his son about the new d'Urberville family who had taken the ancient name and lived near Trantridge . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 16 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he had taken the great step . |
| 19 | And , just as if he too suspected her caller was Travis , he had taken the diabolical liberty of answering her door himself . |
| 20 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 21 | He had taken the Olympic bronze in Los Angeles , won the World Cup in 1985 and beaten Carl Lewis in the Goodwill Games in Moscow with 9.95 seconds . |
| 22 | After he had taken the old man to the station , Nick sat in the garden and read . |
| 23 | Then he knew that he had taken the wrong path . |
| 24 | He explained that he had taken the wrong path . |
| 25 | He had taken the full force of the fall but had managed to control the descent well enough to make a controlled crash landing . |