Example sentences of "she had [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had even taken John Gummer under her wing .
2 She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers .
3 ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’
4 Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it .
5 She had certainly taken pains over her dinner party and Hywel had equally certainly shown no enthusiasm for it .
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