Example sentences of "he had take [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 5 | Was there someone like him ? ‘ … and of course he had to take the greatest possible care . |
| 6 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 7 | He had taken a great deal of trouble . |
| 8 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 9 | It was the first time he had taken a real look at the premises from the back . |
| 10 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 11 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 12 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 13 | An applicant for a job with a finance company claimed he had taken a lengthy career break which turned out to be a prison term for robbery . |
| 14 | It was where he had taken a vivacious Puerto Rican paediatrician , Carmen Rodriguez , on their first date . |
| 15 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 16 | ‘ Sit down , ’ said Stone , after he had taken a large mouthful of the whisky . |
| 17 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 18 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 19 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 20 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 21 | In September of that year , he had taken a high line with Henry VIII , letting him trundle up to York only to gaze north at an empty road , for James , probably at the persuasion of his council , failed to keep his appointment with the English king . |
| 22 | He had taken a deliberate risk with his own life . |
| 23 | He then opened discussions with Universal , a company in which he had taken a 25 per cent stake back in 1935 , whereby Rank 's smaller films would be packaged with the pictures of an independent US production company , and sold in a block to exhibitors . |
| 24 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
| 25 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 26 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 27 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 28 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
| 29 | About a week after he had taken the stable , a Land Rover swept round the drive at high speed and disgorged its chamber of horrors — his family . |
| 30 | But he had taken the great step . |