Example sentences of "someone had take " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mappin says , ‘ … someone had to take tennis to the public … ’ |
| 2 | Defries had decided that someone had to take charge . |
| 3 | Anyway , someone had to take his place . |
| 4 | Someone had take the trouble to remove all the children 's sweet papers from the ashtray , and clean underneath the mats as well . |
| 5 | He wondered whether the sad white victim was still lying in the sodden grass by the lake , or whether someone had taken pity and buried it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A glance inside showed that someone had taken trouble , and there was a really friendly feeling about the place . |
| 10 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
| 11 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 12 | Someone had taken it , someone , presumably , who knew where to find it . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone had taken it to a French jeweller after the war and tried to sell it . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone had taken it by morning . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps someone had taken out the bulb . |
| 16 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
| 19 | And he referred quite clearly to the notes someone had taken , information my mother must have given them . |