Example sentences of "[pers pn] had take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 2 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 3 | But , you see , I had taken a violent dislike to the short man . |
| 4 | It was the first time I had taken a close look at him . |
| 5 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 6 | Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse . |
| 7 | Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest . |
| 8 | If she had taken a tougher line with them at once , they would have known where to stop . |
| 9 | She had taken a considerable amount of trouble over her appearance , she realized now , waiting for him to open the door . |
| 10 | I knew she had taken a fine dose . |
| 11 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 12 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 13 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 14 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 15 | He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right . |
| 16 | so we had to take a hundred and twenty five pound off what we owed |
| 17 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 18 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 19 | We crossed several large meadows before working along steep , loose flanks , rich with flowers but not a route for mules , wherever they were — they had taken a different line . |
| 20 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 21 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 22 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 23 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 24 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 25 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 26 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 27 | 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men . |
| 28 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 29 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
| 30 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |