Example sentences of "he had take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 2 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 3 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 4 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 5 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 6 | He had taken a great deal of trouble . |
| 7 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 8 | It was the first time he had taken a real look at the premises from the back . |
| 9 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 10 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 11 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 12 | An applicant for a job with a finance company claimed he had taken a lengthy career break which turned out to be a prison term for robbery . |
| 13 | It was where he had taken a vivacious Puerto Rican paediatrician , Carmen Rodriguez , on their first date . |
| 14 | ‘ Sit down , ’ said Stone , after he had taken a large mouthful of the whisky . |
| 15 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 16 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 19 | In September of that year , he had taken a high line with Henry VIII , letting him trundle up to York only to gaze north at an empty road , for James , probably at the persuasion of his council , failed to keep his appointment with the English king . |
| 20 | He had taken a deliberate risk with his own life . |
| 21 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 22 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But he had taken the great step . |
| 25 | And , just as if he too suspected her caller was Travis , he had taken the diabolical liberty of answering her door himself . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After he had taken the old man to the station , Nick sat in the garden and read . |
| 29 | Then he knew that he had taken the wrong path . |
| 30 | He explained that he had taken the wrong path . |