Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 2 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 3 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 4 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 5 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |