Example sentences of "had take [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people had taken me as a sincere , genuine man who was worried , I think we could have avoided all that has happened . |
| 2 | Jean-Claude had taken me along a lane that struck out towards a château it fell short of reaching . |
| 3 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 4 | He had taken me under his featherless wing to this extent , giving me lifts and sharing with me some of his unusual theories . |
| 5 | Later , my husband had taken me with him . |
| 6 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 7 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 8 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 9 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 10 | I could not remember him , but knew he was my mother 's brother , who had taken me to his house when my parents both died . |
| 11 | Once he had taken me to Brighton for the day . |
| 12 | Mrs Rosenbloom nearly always found out about it and she would be mad that he had taken me from my work with the children . |
| 13 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 14 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 15 | On the previous day , a guide had taken me round Budapest Anthropological Museum . |
| 16 | They did n't seem to know what it was , so had taken her into hospital for observation — or so I understood . |
| 17 | There was the sound of feet being carefully wiped on the doormat , as once sharply requested by Mrs Stych soon after her marriage had taken her into polite circles . |
| 18 | Anyway , Mrs Aggie had been very sorry she had struck her and she had taken her into the town and bought her a real new bonnet , although she would allow her to wear it only on a Sunday . |
| 19 | He did , and when he eventually learned that the child 's mother had committed suicide and that out of compassion the rag woman had taken her into her house to save her being put in the workhouse or farmed out , again they both agreed that the rag woman had worthy motives . |
| 20 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 21 | He had taken her into another dimension . |
| 22 | An inexpressible lethargy , born of shock and mingled desire , made her want to lean her head forward against him , to have her face and mouth close to that part of him which , earlier , had taken her into such a seventh heaven of ecstasy . |
| 23 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 24 | Delia had taken her for a walk in the park and Mrs Miniver — always an inquisitive ‘ person ’ by nature — had squeezed through railings alongside the river and promptly slid down the bank into the water . |
| 25 | ‘ Mama — ’ Gratitude rushed up in him ; he realised that he had not always considered her , had taken her for granted , had consulted her in nothing ; and now she had probably saved his reason . |
| 26 | To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it . |
| 27 | Her father was a high official and had taken her with him on a trip to London and she had returned with her hair in orange stripes . |
| 28 | He had always said she was too young to be involved but had taken her with him at her own insistence . |
| 29 | Lisa and Jo had taken her to clinics , booked her in with midwives , read up on birth technology , warned her about smoking ; and all with an air of adult exasperation towards a wayward child . |
| 30 | Then last night he had taken her to St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |