Example sentences of "[pron] have take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had to take a breather and a hoarse croak escaped me . |
| 32 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 33 | I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble . |
| 34 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 35 | So I had to take an eye test , I remember . |
| 36 | That is why I had to take the call . |
| 37 | After the breakfast things had been washed up I had to take the milk separator to bits and wash each part and dry them in front of the fire and then put them together again ready for the night 's milking . |
| 38 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 39 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 40 | I had taken a couple of slices of bread up the tree with me , with the intention of feeding small pieces of pinched flake into their midst to see if they would accept them . |
| 41 | I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house . |
| 42 | I had taken a letter of introduction from my own bench and from the Magistrates Association . |
| 43 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 44 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 45 | Through the binoculars , I traced the path I had taken the night before when following Victor . |
| 46 | Perhaps the others would blame me for deserting , I thought , but Captain Smollett would be pleased I had taken the Hispaniola , I was sure . |
| 47 | I had taken the decision to leave him . |
| 48 | I think she thought I had taken the wind out of Rossetti 's sails … . |
| 49 | Thankful that I had taken the trouble to gather dry wood while it was fine , I lighted the fire , and soon had a cheerful blaze going . |
| 50 | Nigel saw my anger and was obviously surprised that I had taken the review off the Cabinet agenda . |
| 51 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 52 | I had taken the slabs one course back from the edge of the hole , and Lou had arranged them neatly in order , so we would know what went where . |
| 53 | But I think they recognise that I 'm not trying to exploit the Broads to line my pocket , and that I 've taken a bit of care . |
| 54 | ‘ I 've taken a bearing on the monastery and radar station on Mount Elias there . |
| 55 | I 've taken a look at three big names in DOS word processing — WordStar 7 , WordPerfect 5.1 and Q&A 4 — to see what they have to offer in comparison with their much-hyped Windows brethren . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've taken a stand . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ I 've taken a day off and I 've changed my shift . ’ |
| 58 | No , I 've taken a couple , look . |
| 59 | the first time I 've taken a pill for years and years and she said , my taste and my smell |
| 60 | So what if I 've taken a jazz classic and clubbed it up ? |