Example sentences of "have take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral . |
| 2 | She would have taken Moses back to the harem where he would be brought up with others , learning to read and write the Egyptian hieroglyphic and " cursive " scripts and gaining expertise in various skills and sports ( see Acts 7:22 ) . |
| 3 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 4 | And when she came home she said , Do you know what she said she must have taken ages she said to put that cord through that er beam , she said . |
| 5 | He may have taken pity on her and bought her a drink , at the same time buying a little companionship for himself , easing the ache of his loneliness . |
| 6 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 7 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 8 | God , she must have taken leave of her senses . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 12 | However , asked whether she might have taken drugs he said : ‘ I would have to say ‘ no comment ’ . ’ |
| 13 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |
| 14 | Over a lavish Christmas dinner which Katherine thought must have taken Cook weeks to prepare , Violette regaled them with tales of bizarre exploits . |
| 15 | The river also provided a tremendous variety of fish and certainly the Millers would have taken advantage of this from the Garden frontage . |
| 16 | Those who could read may have taken advantage of some of the ideas of a local Elizabethan agricultural writer , Leonard Mascall of Plumpton , who wrote three textbooks on the arts of husbandry ; most farmers probably continued much as their forbears had done , producing a growing farming surplus more by accident than by conscious design . |
| 17 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 18 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 19 | Necessarily , as my hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) is my parliamentary private secretary , he will have taken advantage of the opportunity of briefing . |
| 20 | He could have taken advantage . |
| 21 | The deal would have taken Jones 's transfers to almost £3 million , spanning four moves with the two London clubs , Leeds and Sheffield United . |
| 22 | It froze again that night and everybody guessed that by morning his twisted icy body with its pathetic malformation was lying at the bottom of some gulley , where he would have taken cover from the snow and the wind . |
| 23 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 24 | Raasay has an atmosphere of independence : had the Macleods ever declared a Republic of Raasay , the place feels as if the idea might have taken hold . |
| 25 | They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up . |
| 26 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 27 | Bowes must have taken Nedham into God 's Gift to show him the place where the accident happened . |
| 28 | Erm Mr introduced the the the the the prospect that erm if they 'd have taken migration over the last three years , it would have been a much reduced figure . |
| 29 | point , okay that was a bit of wide ball but I might have taken offence at that . |
| 30 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |