Example sentences of "[indef pn] had take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
| 3 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 4 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 5 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
| 6 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 7 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 8 | ‘ Somebody had to take a stand . |
| 9 | Since that lunch everything had taken an upward swing . |
| 10 | She stabbed a book with a dangerous index finger , and took herself back to her desk , to survey her class and see that no-one had taken a whiff of pot while her attention had been distracted . |