Example sentences of "had to take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There were rows of cars outside when I went , and you had to take a ticket with a number when you sat down . |
| 3 | ‘ I was so sick , I had to take a day off . |
| 4 | I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble . |
| 5 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 6 | I certainly had to take a couple of unofficial breaks and we were very glad when we stopped for food and drink . |
| 7 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 8 | To get to their proposed operational area the convoy had to take a difficult route . |
| 9 | Sounds had to take a different tack in order to push Oi ( and boost its circulation ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to take a message to these ’ — she almost said gentlemen — ‘ to Mrs Felton about her youngest son ; he 's in hospital . ’ |
| 13 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 14 | Every morning before we went to school , we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 17 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 18 | He had to take a boat to Miami , and that 's why he give me the keys to Starkisser . |
| 19 | Tolkien had to take a rather strict line over ‘ myth ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Daughter swung round and Jazzbeaux had to take a fall to avoid the needles . |
| 23 | In the early part of 1990 there was a run of particularly low tides , one of which resulted in a boatyard in Sant'Elena , on the north-eastern edge of Venice , burning to a cinder because the fire boats had to take a roundabout route . |
| 24 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 25 | Their ambition increased by the movement , until all forty-one were in violent motion , so violent that the Bowl began to move across the table , and Oscar had to take a firm hold of it to keep it from turning over . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 29 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 30 | 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 . |