Example sentences of "[pron] have first take " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 2 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 3 | Eva could go walking there the weekends she was free , capturing the beauty of the beeches or a snow scene in detailed photographs , a hobby she had first taken up in Africa . |
| 4 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 5 | It was the gratitude of the star on This is Your Life thanking the village schoolmaster who had first taken him to the theatre . |
| 6 | The windows of the pump-house blew out with a roar of debris and crashing concrete blocks , one falling where they had first taken cover . |
| 7 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |
| 8 | She was sure his parents had thought she was precisely that , when he had first taken her home to meet them . |