Example sentences of "[pron] had take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a distinct , physical feeling of sick panic , as if she had taken a step — and there was nothing there . |
| 32 | Things happen , he thought , and lay on the bed listening , but she had taken a magazine in with her and he fell asleep waiting . |
| 33 | She had taken a handful of downers with her whisky around 10 a.m. and had woken up in hospital . |
| 34 | He wondered whether she had taken a lover during the last five years . |
| 35 | She had taken a job in Manchester which bored her as much as she knew it would , but where she could settle down and get to know the people she was working with . |
| 36 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
| 37 | Third place went to Denis McCullough but the hard luck story of the race belonged to Phelim Owens who had to take a slip road at Cardy Corner when lying fourth then rejoined the race in 10th place before ending up back where he had started — in fourth place . |
| 38 | Freed also said that it was he rather than Duna , who had taken a 90% stake in Hungary 's largest circulation English-language newspaper , Budapest Week . |
| 39 | In 1985 , they proposed to extend their role beyond that of an annual dining club for officers who had taken a degree through the police college scheme . |
| 40 | It had been a fairly commonplace murder , a henpecked husband at the end of his tether who had taken a hatchet to his virago of a wife . |
| 41 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 42 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 43 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 44 | There were rows of cars outside when I went , and you had to take a ticket with a number when you sat down . |
| 45 | In the old cells you had to take a bucket of water in , get a wash , and then wash your underwear in it , in the same bucket . |
| 46 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 47 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 48 | For some reason which escapes me we had to take a taxi , and when we arrived at Helsinki airport we had to wait five hours for our flight . |
| 49 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 50 | Erm well in the early days we had to take a kiddies bible school |
| 51 | You used to have to take a er a erm your own cup and erm that was for your for for whatever we had we I do n't know I remember we had lemonade or pop or whether it was tea or we had er we had to take a cup , and er most of us invariably took a a big handkerchief with us . |
| 52 | So when we received persistent telephone calls from our clients asking whether we had heard that all was not well with the horse , we had to take a view . |
| 53 | We had taken a taxi to the Sharia el-Azhar from where the buses depart . |
| 54 | We had taken a London business colleague out who had never fished before ; the sort of man who had done everything and knew everything . |
| 55 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 56 | they used to , well , it , it was night shift and they had took a camera into the er factory were they were doing the cars and he had blokes |
| 57 | At the end of those ten minutes , though , they had taken a turn to the right , then one to the left , and it was apparent that Naylor knew his way around the area . |
| 58 | She described liquidators Cork Gully as ‘ corpse snatchers ’ and said it was unfair that they had taken a total of £7.9m in expenses over 10 years . |
| 59 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 60 | Then , entering Henry 's land once more , they had taken a couple of fences in good style and returned home in excellent spirits , congratulating each other warmly . |