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 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house . |
| 12 | I had taken a letter of introduction from my own bench and from the Magistrates Association . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 15 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Somebody had to take a stand . |
| 20 | I paid £12.10s. for it , which had taken a year to save . |
| 21 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 22 | She had to take a class in ten minutes . |
| 23 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 24 | She had taken a craving for the sight of green grass . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had taken a delight in reproaching Edith at every opportunity . |
| 28 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 29 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 30 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |