Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so we had to take a hundred and twenty five pound off what we owed |
| 2 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 3 | He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right . |
| 4 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 5 | It was where he had taken a vivacious Puerto Rican paediatrician , Carmen Rodriguez , on their first date . |