Example sentences of "they had take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision .
4 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 !
5 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 .
6 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 .
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