Example sentences of "[verb] have take [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some drivers are reported to have taken the law into their own hands by illegally carrying weapons to defend themselves . |
| 2 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 3 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |
| 4 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
| 5 | The bears are thought to have taken an interest in the local sheep after grazing areas were enclosed in a neighbouring valley [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 6 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 7 | Someone is going to have to take the hit for this . ’ |
| 8 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 9 | The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse . |
| 10 | Historians seem to have taken the lead from their subject : the RPF is still the least studied and least well-understood part of de Gaulle 's career . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , she 's usually particular who rides Leopold , but she seems to have taken a shine to the boy . |
| 12 | Nero wants you for the circus , he seems to have taken a fancy to you and was asking about the lanolin — say no more ! |
| 13 | He must have seen the blaze of fury in Sophie 's eyes , but , ignoring it , he added smilingly , ‘ Fate seems to have taken a hand in our affairs . ’ |
| 14 | For Geoffrey , although he seems to have taken no part in suppressing the revolt , had also been in the Limousin during that summer . |
| 15 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 16 | The unexpectedness of this request seems to have taken the king by surprise . |
| 17 | After some early difficulties , his grip on England apparently became firm enough , and its magnates committed to the Danish dynasty : nobody seems to have taken the claims of the æthelings Edward and Alfred seriously in 1036 . |
| 18 | ‘ Possessiveness seems to have taken the place of affection with them . |
| 19 | The one it was unlawful to name had taken the name of ‘ Emmanuel ’ ( ‘ God with us ’ ) and ‘ Jesus ’ ( ‘ God saves ’ ) . |
| 20 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 21 | The moral of the whole story is that you really do have to take the responsibility for making the choice of PC yourself . |
| 22 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 23 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , as Russia 's economy burns , inflation now a hairsbreadth from the banana republic variety , its leaders fiddle with its future — locked in a political power struggle which would now seem to have taken the place of anything resembling coherent government . |
| 25 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |
| 26 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 27 | Many people whose films have been lost have taken the processors to court , winning compensation for more than the cost of the film . |
| 28 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 29 | Such testimonies could be repeated over and over again as team members have had to take the lead in new areas they have found quite frightening . |
| 30 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |