Example sentences of "[pron] had take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to take a message to these ’ — she almost said gentlemen — ‘ to Mrs Felton about her youngest son ; he 's in hospital . ’ |
| 2 | I was told I would have to have another operation a month later , but first I had to take a course of male hormones called Danazol . |
| 3 | ‘ I was so sick , I had to take a day off . |
| 4 | that was at four o'clock , I had to take a tablet . |
| 5 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 6 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 7 | I had to take a breather and a hoarse croak escaped me . |
| 8 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 9 | I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So I had to take an eye test , I remember . |
| 12 | That is why I had to take the call . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house . |
| 18 | I had taken a letter of introduction from my own bench and from the Magistrates Association . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 21 | Through the binoculars , I traced the path I had taken the night before when following Victor . |
| 22 | Perhaps the others would blame me for deserting , I thought , but Captain Smollett would be pleased I had taken the Hispaniola , I was sure . |
| 23 | I had taken the decision to leave him . |
| 24 | I think she thought I had taken the wind out of Rossetti 's sails … . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nigel saw my anger and was obviously surprised that I had taken the review off the Cabinet agenda . |
| 27 | This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Someone had take the trouble to remove all the children 's sweet papers from the ashtray , and clean underneath the mats as well . |
| 30 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |