Example sentences of "i had [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do n't think I had even taken any A levels when I left school . ’ |
| 2 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 3 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 4 | I reckon poor old Charlie was glad I had n't taken him into partnership . |
| 5 | The fact is that if I had n't taken part in the BBC television previews of the big event I would probably be riding my old friend Bonanza Boy . |
| 6 | I had n't taken part in a sponsored walk for many years and had forgotten the exhilaration of crossing the long awaited finishing line . |
| 7 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 8 | That 's why I had n't taken anything with me . ’ |
| 9 | Or if I 'd seen it , I had n't taken it in . |
| 10 | Philippe was quite correct , I had n't taken my pills and it was one of the days when I did rather need them . ’ |
| 11 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 12 | But then , of course ’ — she pulled a face now — ‘ I had n't taken your husband into account , had , I ? nor his charm or his wiliness . |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten there was a new pair in the wardrobe with , still with the labels on I had n't taken off . |
| 14 | Er yo I had n't taken the three gold from the go before Kyle when you went in there . |
| 15 | Within my college work , I had already taken the decision to devote more time and concentration to HNC/Ds ; just because they work smoothly and efficiently and have a good reputation is no excuse for not keeping actively in touch with this area . |
| 16 | I had already taken this out . |
| 17 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 18 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 19 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 20 | I had just taken another look at Debonair — at Vron , my future stepmother . |
| 21 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 22 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 23 | ‘ If you want to get this visit over with , signorina , ’ he said sharply , ‘ then I had best take you to my grandmother at once . ’ |
| 24 | Amid the furore over the French deal for Normandin and Auque , Joelle Kauffman and I had both taken part via satellite in The Time , The Place , which discussed whether the British Government was right to say ‘ No deals ’ . |
| 25 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 26 | I had never taken a record and listened to them , even though they were labelled ‘ progressive ’ rock . |
| 27 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 28 | Thoughtlessly , grandly , I had then taken a fallen branch and lopped the top leaves off some innocent plant like a child . |
| 29 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 30 | ‘ I had better take you in to her ladyship , Mr Beckenham . ’ |