Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that this is the case is illustrated by events in recent history , such as devastating forest fires in the USA in 1988 , the virtually annual floods in the Indian subcontinent in the wake of the monsoon rains , and the continuing drought in parts of the African continent which have taken the lives and livelihood of countless people . |
| 2 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 3 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 4 | On 12 July 1330 , during the last months of their rule , the perambulations made during the reigns of Edward I and Edward 11 were ordered to be observed in every particular , and the Forest officers in Shropshire were forbidden to take any action against the owners of lands within the disafforested districts who had taken the deer or cut timber there . |
| 5 | Anthony Lewis talks to drivers who have taken the plunge and switched from petrol-engined cars to diesel with not a regret between them The doctor |
| 6 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 7 | Within 18 months he had taken the club to the FA Cup semi-final and their highest League position in the club 's 87-year history . |
| 8 | But industrial growth would gradually provide the resources for improvements in wages and conditions of the kind which had taken the sting out of revolutionary ferment in the West . |
| 9 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 10 | These bodies were controlled by the ‘ men of 1808 ’ , local landowners , clergy , officers , and administrators who had taken the patriot side . |
| 11 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |
| 12 | But it 's either her or the caretaker who 've taken a lot of stuff out of my place : radio cassette , bedside radio , camera , alarm clock , my son 's chair and table . |
| 13 | I spoke to the boy who had taken the telegram to the Hall . |
| 14 | In one scene he had to take a handkerchief out of his pocket , and in the process shower Maggie Smith with nuts . |
| 15 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 16 | Before this admission she had taken no drugs . |
| 17 | And to win at Henley you have to take the pain . |
| 18 | The number of times you have to take the medicines varies : frequently in an acute condition and less frequently in a chronic one . |
| 19 | I pointed to my hip bones , especially the right which had taken the weight of the chain . |
| 20 | I can tell you right now that there are plenty of indi I I 'm I 'm going to say this up front , there are plenty of individuals who 've taken the information away and tried to do it themselves . |
| 21 | Their behaviour in Brazil was , however , complicated by the monetary authorities and policies of their home government — primarily , that of the United States since it was US banks who had taken the lead and were therefore the most exposed ( Frieden , 1987 ; Nunnenkamp , 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Since that point we have taken a number of steps to reduce students ' reliance on benefits . |
| 23 | Erm well in the early days we had to take a kiddies bible school |
| 24 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 25 | Her husband Richard , 33 , from Gosport , told Portsmouth Crown Court she had taken the money to repay debts . |
| 26 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 27 | Finally , I secured a post as an assistant master at Sloane School , Chelsea , the headmaster of which , Guy Boas , himself a writer , was the son of the Shakespeare scholar who had taken the chair at Eliot 's King 's College lecture . |
| 28 | Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son 's grave . |
| 29 | In 1985 , they proposed to extend their role beyond that of an annual dining club for officers who had taken a degree through the police college scheme . |
| 30 | In interpreting the studies by Vonk and by Garnham & Oakhill we have taken an effect of gender cue to indicate name mapping and one of congruity with bias to indicate role mapping . |