Example sentences of "[pers pn] had take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 2 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 3 | Apart from wanting the law or whatever to catch up with him ( which it did n't ) , I had taken little notice , and no interest , in John 's furtive and elaborate preparations for travel — the series of interviews with the Reverend Kreditor , for example . |
| 4 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 5 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 6 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 7 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 8 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 9 | She had to take another look . |
| 10 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 11 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 12 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 13 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 14 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 15 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 16 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 17 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 18 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 19 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 20 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 21 | She started with the bones — good thing she had taken those anatomy courses — and laid on muscle , flesh and skin . |
| 22 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 23 | We felt we had to take direct action . |
| 24 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 25 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 26 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 27 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 28 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |
| 29 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 30 | It had taken small effort for the cop to lead her on . |