Example sentences of "[pron] had take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 2 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 3 | Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out . |
| 4 | I had to take my picture in one of them photo booths . |
| 5 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 6 | ‘ I was so sick , I had to take a day off . |
| 7 | I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble . |
| 8 | I had to take his sand-iron off him because he was threatening the guy with it . |
| 9 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 10 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to take a message to these ’ — she almost said gentlemen — ‘ to Mrs Felton about her youngest son ; he 's in hospital . ’ |
| 12 | The people of Tiree were very kind , and I had to take tea with a family who had good English , and invited me to come right away and remain their guest while I stayed on the island . |
| 13 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 14 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 15 | ‘ I had to take most of the deliveries near my head ’ , said Farbrace . |
| 16 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |
| 17 | ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’ |
| 18 | The body shape and layout did n't imply anything , and so for once I had to take things as they came . |
| 19 | LAGER , too , is trying to change the rules which govern employment , and I believe help would be available if I had to take action against an employer . |
| 20 | I had to take two more roadside breaks and got into the city at two in the morning , taking off for Texas at dawn . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I had to take off my belt , my tie and my shoelaces , had my photograph and my fingerprints taken . |
| 23 | For the purposes of completing this project and covering some grand skylines in Snowdonia , the Lakes and Scotland — I had to take time out from my more usual pastime to actually walk those mountain crests . |
| 24 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 25 | I was told I would have to have another operation a month later , but first I had to take a course of male hormones called Danazol . |
| 26 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 27 | I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion . |
| 28 | I was pretty certain of the approach I had to take and the fact that we 're virtually the same age was an advantage . |
| 29 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 30 | I had to take care of myself . |