Example sentences of "[pron] had take a [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 | So I had to take an eye test , I remember . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house . |
13 | I had taken a letter of introduction from my own bench and from the Magistrates Association . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
16 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
17 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
18 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
19 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
20 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
21 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
22 | ‘ Somebody had to take a stand . |
23 | I paid £12.10s. for it , which had taken a year to save . |
24 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
25 | She had to take a class in ten minutes . |
26 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
27 | She had taken a craving for the sight of green grass . |
28 | She had taken a tablet of the drug — one of a group of amphetamine-based substances — on a visit to the Hacienda club in Manchester in July . |
29 | She wished she had taken a chance and kept Angel , for there was no lessening of the pain that parting with her had caused , and no comfort to be found in Newcastle Place . |
30 | She had taken a delight in reproaching Edith at every opportunity . |