Example sentences of "[pron] had take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 5 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |
| 13 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 14 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 15 | She had to take another look . |
| 16 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 17 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 18 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 19 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 20 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 21 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 22 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 23 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 24 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 25 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 26 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 27 | She started with the bones — good thing she had taken those anatomy courses — and laid on muscle , flesh and skin . |
| 28 | His mother , who had taken one look at the place when she first returned to France , had been firm . |
| 29 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 30 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |