Example sentences of "had take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they used to , well , it , it was night shift and they had took a camera into the er factory were they were doing the cars and he had blokes |
| 2 | He had taken a phone call from Gabriel , half wishing it was Rose Hilaire , but wanting to feel loyal to Gaby . |
| 3 | He was going back into the National Health Service and had taken a consultancy in a drug dependency unit based at the Lurie Foundation Hospital for Dipsomaniacs on Hampstead Road . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Phoebe had taken a shower , found some clean knickers , mounted her bicycle and ridden off to her appointment at the clinic . |
| 5 | It had taken a year and a half to find out , but now — at last — I was sure . |
| 6 | Vina , who was Irish champion two years ago , had taken a year off from competition to have a baby last September , and Punchestown was her first major outing this season with Knockdrin . |
| 7 | I paid £12.10s. for it , which had taken a year to save . |
| 8 | Senior officer Robert Ambler said the journey to Tiju , in Romania , had taken a year to prepare and followed a successful trip by three officers . |
| 9 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 10 | With research in mind and with the aid of a fellowship , in 1940 , Williams had taken a journey to the Caribbean where he visited Cuba , Haiti , Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic . |
| 11 | A wife whose husband had taken a girl out on a number of occasions would tell the counsellor , ‘ This time it 's different — they 've slept together . ’ |
| 12 | The preacher had taken a girl out to kill her , but had made of her a weapon which could be used against him . |
| 13 | He felt as he had in Oxford , the first time he had taken a girl out with a packet of French letters in his wallet . |
| 14 | Whereas the old system had taken a percentage of the harvest , the new one levied tax on registered landowners as a percentage of the assessed monetary value of the land , 3 per cent in the first instance , plus a local government levy . |
| 15 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |
| 16 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 17 | The Mason came down out of his cart wearing God 's Creation robe because he had taken a fancy to its white ermine collar and the cabalistic sun , moon and stars embroidered front and back . |
| 18 | He had taken a couple of square inches of rock cocaine from wherever he had hidden his supply and was chopping it with his knife on to Trent 's shaving mirror . |
| 19 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 20 | I had taken a couple of slices of bread up the tree with me , with the intention of feeding small pieces of pinched flake into their midst to see if they would accept them . |
| 21 | Then , entering Henry 's land once more , they had taken a couple of fences in good style and returned home in excellent spirits , congratulating each other warmly . |
| 22 | Rory had been down home in the country all day long , working on some bad debt accounts with Tom Holdfast , so he and Mallachy had taken a couple in the Wellington Park to wash away the nasty taste of commerce . |
| 23 | He had taken a couple of tablets of synthesized dope . |
| 24 | ’ They all looked at me and suddenly , horror struck me : the two or three policemen normally along there had disappeared — had taken a prisoner along to the station — and there was n't another policeman within half a mile . |
| 25 | Rebecque looked up into Sharpe 's tired and dust-stained face and wondered just how Sharpe had taken a prisoner , but he knew this was no time for foolish questions . |
| 26 | It was as though he had taken a drug , not one to make him hallucinate but one to end hallucination . |
| 27 | Renewing the emphasis on the unit 's original raison d'etre created by Lord Rayner , the Prime Minister 's first efficiency adviser — the scrutiny programme of efficiency studies — was necessary , Sir Angus said , as ‘ it had taken a bit of a setback ’ . |
| 28 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 29 | Beating Oldham 1–0 on 30 August had taken a bit of heat off Wilkinson , but another away defeat could well have led to calls for his resignation . |
| 30 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |