Example sentences of "[pron] had take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out . |
| 2 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 3 | I had to take two more roadside breaks and got into the city at two in the morning , taking off for Texas at dawn . |
| 4 | I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to take most of the deliveries near my head ’ , said Farbrace . |
| 6 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 7 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 8 | Apart from wanting the law or whatever to catch up with him ( which it did n't ) , I had taken little notice , and no interest , in John 's furtive and elaborate preparations for travel — the series of interviews with the Reverend Kreditor , for example . |
| 9 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 10 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 11 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 12 | I had taken two of his canvases out of the country with me . |
| 13 | I also bound up with my brochure , a number of photographs ; for I had taken two cameras abroad . |
| 14 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 15 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 16 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 17 | At eighteen I had taken three ‘ O ’ levels and 2 ‘ A ’ levels in secretarial subjects . |
| 18 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 19 | After two weeks nobody had taken any . |
| 20 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
| 21 | This case was successful from a conservation viewpoint , although a considerable investment of time and resources was required from a consortium of interests , which had to take financial risks . |
| 22 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |
| 23 | The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 24 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |
| 25 | She gave a little gesture , out towards the windows , to the formal parterre which had taken twenty men as many months to relay and replant . |
| 26 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 27 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 28 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 29 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |
| 30 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |